ACE Senior Engineer Rodgers Kimera in virtual reality (VR) headset.
The African Centers of Excellence in Bioinformatics and Data-Intensive Science (ACE) are a consortium of research and training centers facilitated by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) in collaboration with African research institutions, private sector companies, and the Foundation for the NIH. ACE delivers high performance computing infrastructure and training through a public-private partnership based on in-kind contributions. ACE also provide researchers with mentoring, training, technical and scientific support, computer resources, and the bioinformatics tools necessary for advanced data analysis. Finally, ACE provides a platform for sharing skills, knowledge, and best practices between members of the global biomedical research community.
Main Areas of Focus
- Provide high performance computing infrastructure & training to researchers across Africa
- Empower researchers and their students to utilize computing resources for advanced biomedical data analysis
- Build better technical capacity for research and foster data sharing to improve the quality of infectious disease science within the African continent
- Partner with other sponsors to build a network of self-sustaining centers that can tap into other sources of funding
Senior Program Management
- Michael Tartakovsky
- Maria Y. Giovanni
Read more about this network: African Centers of Excellence in Bioinformatics and Data-Intensive Science