Acknowledgements

We would like to thank all those who were involved in the making of the course Making sense of genomic data: COVID-19 web-based bioinformatics

Course Educators

Carolina Castañeda Garcia
PhD candidate at the International Laboratory for Human Genome Research from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico

Claudine Nkera-Gutabara
PhD candidate in Human Genetics at the Sydney Brenner Institute for Molecular Bioscience, Division of Human Genetics from the University of Witwatersrand, South Africa

Dr Tanya Golubchik
Senior lecturer in computational microbiology at the Sydney Institute for Infectious Diseases, University of Sydney, Australia

Tracey Calvert-Joshua
Bioinformatician at the South African National Bioinformatics Institute, South Africa

Varun Shamanna
Senior bioinformatician at the Central Research Laboratory from the Kempegowda Institute of Medical Sciences, India

Course Developer

Dr Liã Bárbara Arruda
Education Developer at Wellcome Connecting Science

Global Contributors

Dr Ana Villasenor Altamirano
Research Fellow at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, United States

Brian Kariithi
PhD candidate at University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa

David Twesigomwe
PhD candidate at Sydney Brenner Institute for Molecular Bioscience, South Africa

Eunice Niyobuntu
PhD candidate at University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa

Merlin Abraham-Davies
Researcher at University of Exeter, United Kingdom

Muthumeenakshi Bhaskaran
Senior Research Associate at Central Research Laboratory, KIMS, India

Nischita Subramanya Research Associate at Central research Laboratory, KIMS, India

Dr Rebecca Rockett
Senior Research Fellow at University of Sydney, Australia

Shreedhanya Marathe
Bioinformatician at Central research Laboratory, KIMS, India

Course Reviewers

Dr Arporn (Koi) Wangwiwatsin
Lecturer and Researcher at Cholangiocarcinoma Research Institute and Khon Kaen University, Thailand

Dr Andrés Culasso
Head of Practical Works and Associate Researcher at University of Buenos Aires and Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Tecnológicas, Argentina

Dr Daniel Gyamfi Amoako
Senior Bioinformatics Scientist at National Institute for Communicable Diseases, South Africa

Contributors from the COG-UK consortium

Prof Sharon Peacock
Executive Director and Chair at COG-UK and Head of COG-Train, University of Cambridge

Prof Alistair Darby
Co-Director of the Centre for Genomic Research, University of Liverpool

Prof Darren Smith
Associate Professor, Northumbria University

Dr Ewan Harrison
Director of Data Science and Deputy Director for COG-UK

Dr Leigh Jackson
COG-Train Scientific Lead

Ellena Brooks
Project coordinator at COG-UK

Kim Smith
Project coordinator at COG-UK

Laia Delgado Callico
Communications coordinator at COG-UK

Wellcome Connecting Science

Online Courses Education Manager Dr Rachel Berkson
Online Courses Senior Education Developer Dusanka Nikolic MSc MA
Education Developer Jorge Batista da Rocha
A/Head of Courses and Global Training Dr Alice Matimba
Head of Conferences and Online Training Dr Treasa Creavin

COG-Train team

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