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African DSI DataBank: A federated infrastructure for Africa's biodiversity data
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Ebenezer, ThankGod Echezona
(Contact person)1, 2
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El Allali, Achraf
(Project member)3
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Hayah, Ichrak
(Project member)1
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Sharaf, Abdoallah
(Project member)4, 5
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Muzemil, Sadik
(Project member)6, 7
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Ihenko, Sarah Chidi
(Project member)8
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Ebuzome, Chukwuike
(Project member)9
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Mungloo-Dilmohamud, Zahra
(Project member)10
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Kwenda, Stanford
(Project member)11
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Gaouar, Semir Bechir Suheil
(Project member)12
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Authors/Creators
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Ebenezer, ThankGod Echezona
(Contact person)1, 2
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El Allali, Achraf
(Project member)3
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Hayah, Ichrak
(Project member)1
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Sharaf, Abdoallah
(Project member)4, 5
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Muzemil, Sadik
(Project member)6, 7
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Ihenko, Sarah Chidi
(Project member)8
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Ebuzome, Chukwuike
(Project member)9
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Mungloo-Dilmohamud, Zahra
(Project member)10
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Kwenda, Stanford
(Project member)11
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Gaouar, Semir Bechir Suheil
(Project member)12
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Zoclanclounon, Yedomon Ange Bovys
(Project member)13
- Difer, Yonas Gebremichael (Project member)14
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Edea, Zewdu
(Project member)14
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Kwon-Ndung, Emmanuel Hala
(Project member)15
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Mwambingu, Bupe R
(Project member)16
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Kinnear, Craig
(Project member)17
- Muigai, Anne WT (Project member)18, 19
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Osuji, Julian
(Project member)20, 21
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Badaoui, Bouabid
(Project member)22, 23
- African DSI DataBank (Project member)24
- 1. African BioGenome Project (AfricaBP), Rabat, Morocco
- 2. African BioGenome Project (AfricaBP), Cambridge, United Kingdom
- 3. Bioinformatics Laboratory, College of Computing, Mohammed VI Polytechnic University
- 4. SequAna core facility, University of Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany
- 5. Department of Genetics, Faculty of Agriculture, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt
- 6. University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom
- 7. University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom
- 8. University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
- 9. University of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal
- 10. University of Mauritius, Reduit, Mauritius
- 11. PHA4GE, Cape Town, South Africa
- 12. Applied Genetics in Agriculture, Ecology and Public Health Laboratory, University of Tlemcen, Tlemcen, Algeria
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13.
Rothamsted Research
- 14. Bio and Emerging Technology institute (BETin), Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
- 15. Federal University of Lafia, Lafia, Nigeria
- 16. Basecamp Research, London, United Kingdom
- 17. South African Medical Research Council (SAMRC), Cape Town, South Africa
- 18. National Defence University-Kenya, Nakuru, Kenya
- 19. African BioGenome Project (AfricaBP), Juja, Kenya
- 20. University of Port Harcourt, Choba, Nigeria
- 21. South-South Zonal Centre of Excellence, University of Port Harcourt, Choba, Nigeria
- 22. Faculty of Sciences, Mohammed V University in Rabat (UM5R), Rabat, Morocco
- 23. African Sustainable Agriculture Research Institute, University Mohammed VI Polytechnic (UM6P), Laâyoune, Morocco
- 24. African BioGenome Project (AfricaBP)
Contributors
Related person:
- 1. Bio and Emerging Technologies Institute (BETin), Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
- 2. Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Description
A new platform lets African organisations host, store, study, govern, and share their own genomic and biodiversity digital sequence data - while keeping full custody of it. Here is what it is, how it works, and how to join. The African Digital Sequence Information DataBank for Biodiversity and Agriculture (African DSI DataBank, https://africandsidatabank.africa), developed by the African BioGenome Project (AfricaBP), is launching as a federated platform built specifically to host, curate, and govern access to Africa-origin biodiversity and agricultural DSI. This paper introduces it, briefly describes how it is put together, how data moves through it, and how an organisation, a researcher, or a funder can engage with it.
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