BSI- Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Ghana
Who we are
BSI- Ghana is being pioneered by Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi-Ghana. The group comprises both undergraduate and post-graduates as well as recent graduates in any bio-science discipline. BSI- KNUST is therefore a purely student-led non-profit initiative which seeks to promote professional and career development of its members through mentorship and other well-structured programs/activities. We support community engagement/outreaches as well as inter-cultural dialogue between like-minded scholars around the world.
Projects
Data Science Skills Development Program
Recent advances in molecular biology coupled with advances in genomic technologies and a trend towards other Omic’s sciences, have led to an overflow of biological data. It is obvious that computing and sequencing are rapidly and drastically changing the face of every division of biology across many institutions worldwide. While most training programs focus on experimental methods/assays using current data-rich technologies, no particular attention is paid to the computational skills required today’s biomedical scientist to generate lots of biological insights hidden the mass, varied and ever increasing biological data. BSI-KNUST therefore seeks to address this problem by giving its members key computational skills.