About the BioAfrica Website:

BioAfrica was created as the official website of Prof. Sharon Cassol’s South African research program funded by the Wellcome Trust (grant #061238). Since its conception, as part of Dr. Tulio de Oliveira PhD thesis, the BioAfrica website have expanded and now is one of the most accessible websites related to HIV bioinformatics worldwide.


Developers of the BioAfrica website:


Dr. Tulio de Oliveira
MRC Pathogen Bioinformatics Unit
South African National Bioinformatics Institute
Cape Town, South Africa.
Tel:  +27 21 959 3645

Professor Sharon Cassol
MRC Inflamation and Immunity Unit
Department of Immunology
University of Pretoria
Pretoria, South Africa.
Tel: +27 12 319 2161


Publications and Editorials about the BioAfrica website:

"Out of Africa." editorial WebWatch, BioTechniques (2006), 41(2):129.

"Scorge of a Continent."editorial Netwatch, Science (2005), 310:1877.

"An automated system for HIV genotyping." Bioinformatics (2005), 29(19):3797-3800.

"BioAfrica's HIV-1 Proteomics Resource." Retrovirology (2005), 2(1):18.

"An integrated GDE interface for HIV analysis." Bioinformatics (2003), 19(1):153-154.



BioAfrica website annual reports:

"BioAfrica has matured as an important web-based resource." BioAfrica report 2006. 

"New design, REGA subtyping tool, future objectives." BioAfrica report 2005.

"Prof. Sharon Cassol hird annual report  showing the achievements of her project." BioAfrica report 2004.

"The BioAfrica website." BioAfrica report 2003. 




The BioAfrica web site  is maintained by: Dr. Tulio de Oliveira and Prof. Sharon Cassol
Revised 16 of February 2007 - Copyright @ BioAfrica.