The Institut Pasteur de Côte d’Ivoire was created by the N°72511 law of July 27th, 1972 under the Presidency of his Excellency Felix Houphouët Boigny and Professor Jacques Monod, then Leading of the Pasteur institute of Paris.
The objectives of the Bioinformatics pole are:
• Encourage the access to innovations in research and the best exploitation of research data management.
• Develop the critical spirit of the researchers around their axis of research.
• Bring an active help to the improvement of the public health while having for constant worries to feed it by research and the innovation.
• Start training researchers to use bioinformatics as an indispensable tool to research.
• Encourage interdisciplinary creating a network of scientific information available to the researchers of the institute and partners
Longterm training activities:
• To integrate the bioinformatics in the training programs of academic scientists.
• Development of West Africa Centre training in bioinformatics and genome data analysis.
Shortterm training activities:
The IPCI will organize in the month of May 2007 a yearly regional course of initiation and using genome data analysis with the participation of the Centre Biotechnologique de Sfax, Tunisia (Pr Ahmed Rebaï, Department of bioinformatics).
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