Research

The following projects are currently being carried out by people in Wits Bioinformatics, most of them in collaboration with other researchers or elsewhere.


  1. Bioinformatics of viral diversity
  2. Evolutionary biology
  3. Experimental algorithms and high-performance computing
  4. Assembly of second generation sequence data
  5. Functional annotation of novel data
  6. Genome-wide Association Studies
  7. Human Diversity Studies.
  8. Microbiome studies


We currently have positions open for post-doctoral fellows and PhD students