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The need to stimulate an enabling environment for the development and introduction of GM (genetically modified) crops by Asian countries, based on their own identified priorities, was recently a key point of discussion at a food safety course in India. (more…)

One of the projects being undertaken at the Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Unit is the annotation of Ehrlichia ruminantium, a bacterial genome that is the causative agent of heartwater in cattle. This genome was recently sequenced by Prof Basil Allsopp’s research team, first at the ARC Onderstepoort and more recently at the Department of Veterinary Tropical Diseases at the University of Pretoria. (more…)

From SERA e-News, October 2003

The new ACGT Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Unit recently opened at the University of Pretoria. This unit, initiated in the Department of Biochemistry, is housed on the 3rd floor of the newly constructed extension to FABI. It includes offices, a post-graduate lab that can accommodate 22 students, a high-end server room, a seminar room and a 24-PC training lab. (more…)

The African Centre for Gene Technologies (ACGT) is taking up its role as partner in the National Bioinformatics Network (NBN) that has been created as part of the government’s National Biotechnology Strategy. (more…)

SERA has established the African Centre for Gene Technologies (ACGT) as a biotechnology platform in third generation biotechnology, with a particular focus on gene and genome analysis and applications thereof. Prof Jane Morris, formerly Manager Strategic Technologies at Biochemtek, is the Director of the new Centre. (more…)