Press Release - As part of its programme to expand capacity in and support for pathogen genomics around Africa, the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention hosted its first training in data curation, a pillar of modern data science.
As part of its programme to expand capacity in and support for pathogen genomics around Africa , the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention hosted its first training in data curation, a pillar of modern data science.
The workshop, integral to the Africa CDC's African Pathogen Data Sharing and Archive Platform, also known as Agari is the first offered by the Africa CDC that aims to accelerate data verification and validation before sharing for public health use.
This workshop served as the first steps in building such a community and strengthen the collaboration with NCBI. The training comprised a series of lectures, combined with extended hands-on sessions. The programme included the exploration of established best practices in data curation and web-based data curation tools and will familiarise participants with the step-by-step processes of data cleaning, formatting and sharing with national, regional, and global repositories.
"One take home message for us is that we get to collect a lot of samples in the field and we get those analysed and published and we forget the metadata which renders our samples or efforts futile and then cannot link our results to where it's from," she said. "We were taught that it is vital to ensure that the data that is submitted is of good quality or it meets the required standards and formats so that it is easily accessible and there is consistency and reliability of good value to the scientific community," Pelokgosi said.
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