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Institut Pasteur in Dakar: the Biostatistics, Bioinformatics and Modeling four-year group joins the Pan-African Bioinformatics Network, H3ABioNet
The 4-year research group (G4) led by Dr. Cheikh Loucoubar has officially joined H3ABioNet, the largest bioinformatics network on the African continent, as the new node for West Africa. The G4 of the Institut Pasteur in Dakar is the 4th team of the Institut Pasteur International Network to integrate the panafrican network H3ABioNet while teams from the CERMES (Niger), the Institut Pasteur de Tunis and Institut Pasteur du Maroc were already members. Created in 2015, the G4 of Biostatistics, Bioinformatics and Modeling develops statistical methods to exploit genomic data and identify factors involved in various infectious diseases.