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In total 25 applicants from Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda and South Africa were selected from 152 applications. Eight travel fellowships were awarded to participants from Tanzania and Uganda . These fellowships were made possible with generous funding from Prof. Anna Tramontano from University of Rome "La Sapienza", Italy and the BecA hub. An additional 22 students from the University of Khartoum, Faculty of Animal Production in Sudan participated online in the course using an Internet video conferencing system. The response from the online participants was positive and we will use this medium in future courses. All students received an eBioUSB, a Bioinformatics workbench on a USB memory stick, which contains all the basic bioinformatics tools taught during the course and that enable students to save their data on the same device. The course was favorably evaluated, with 4.4 out of maximum 5 points. Comments received: “..a very powerful tool”, “We highly appreciate it”, “Good course and teachers”. |
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