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ARC establishes South African bioinformatics network for agricultural research
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In order to address their key strategic areas of improving food security, increasing crop productivity, Agricultural Research Council recently made two large investments.
The first in a complete High-Throughput Sequencing platform solution allowing them to incorporate both NGS and advanced genotyping technologies into a single instrument.
The second investment was made in the area of bioinformatics – hardware and software. The core of this investment sits with an enterprise platform enabling them to effiently distribute genomics tools and bioinformatics analysis throughout the ARC – spread accross nearly 2000 km of geographical space.
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