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  • World Bank Country and Lending Groups https://data.oecd.org/natincome/gross-national-income.htm

  • From Construction Workers to Architects: Developing Scientific Research Capacity in Low-Income Countries https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.1000156

  • “The best way for wealthy countries to invest in global health is to train young researchers in low-income countries and link them to the global medical, scientific, and public health communities.”

  • “The Sustainable Sciences Institute (SSI, http://www.ssilink.org), which we represent, is a non-profit organization based in San Francisco with a 20-year history of building scientific capacity in the developing world.”

  • “SSI's approach to building scientific capacity is based in part on hands-on, in-country, 1- to 2-week-long workshops that fulfill specific needs expressed by colleagues in developing countries.”

  • “To achieve long-term success, SSI provides trainees with ongoing technical, scientific, and material support through networking and consulting and material aid programs.”

  • Note success in Nicaragua: Integration of Information Technologies in Clinical Studies in Nicaragua https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.0040291

  • “This project also led to the implementation of a series of low-cost information and communication technologies to streamline information flow and accessibility, improve the quality of data and quality control procedures, and reduce operational costs.”

The collaborative African genomics network training program: a trainee perspective on training the next generation of African scientists https://www.nature.com/articles/gim2016177 ● “because bioinformatics analyses require basic knowledge of the UNIX command line interface, trainees felt that familiarity with the command line prior to undertaking laboratory rotations and coursework should be considered a prerequisite.” ● “all trainees endorsed the use of cloud server storage as helpful in sharing trainee progress reports and the course directors’ reviews.”

African researchers' perceptions and expectations of the benefits of genomics research in Africa : a qualitative study https://open.uct.ac.za/handle/11427/20960 “Interviewees suggested that benefit sharing could be in the form of research capacity building, feedback of study findings, science education, community projects and the sharing of profits.”

Supplementary Materials

Table w the countries that pavels project uses - lc/lmic

Latin American References

Bioinformatics in Latin America and SoIBio impact, a tale of spin-off and expansion around genomes and protein structures Javier De Las Rivas Cesar Bonavides-Martínez Francisco Jose Campos-Laborie https://academic.oup.com/bib/advance-article/doi/10.1093/bib/bbx064/3897318?guestAccessKey=3c9314bf-0c21-43a1-bf33-bc09a397ec40

A review of Bioinformatics training applied to research in Molecular Medicine, Agriculture and Biodiversity in Costa Rica and Central America Allan Orozco Jessica Morera Sergio Jiménez Ricardo Boza https://academic.oup.com/bib/article/14/5/661/219055

Is Panama on the verge of a scientific brain drain? Javier E. Sanchez-Galan, Carlos A. Donado Morcillo https://theconversation.com/is-panama-on-the-verge-of-a-scientific-brain-drain-59576

Central America: Panama's big ambition Rex Dalton https://www.nature.com/news/2011/110126/full/469462a.html?s=news_rss

Application

Visualization portal for genetic variation (VizGVar): a tool for interactive visualization of SNPs and somatic mutations in exons, genes and protein domains Antonio Solano-Román Verónica Alfaro-Arias Carlos Cruz-Castillo Allan Orozco-Solano https://academic.oup.com/bioinformatics/article-abstract/34/6/1048/4582278?redirectedFrom=fulltext

Academic institutions have responded to increased demand for skilled bioinformaticians by supporting interdisciplinary training in several ways. Many colleges and universities now offer undergraduate- and graduate-level certificates and degrees in bioinformatics and related fields. Interestingly, academic institutions are also developing classroom and online training courses that are specifically tailored for individuals who lack a computational background yet wish to become just fluent enough to perform bioinformatics tasks. . Moreover, learning advanced and analytical skills often needed in research environments, could open doors to various national and international post-graduate degrees, that will train the new generation of molecular scientist (for a country that desperately needs to upgrade and renew the current academic and scientific environment). Also, it could be a tool for researchers and their students for contributing to worldly scientific endeavors in “-omics” sciences, and more importantly, knowledge acquired through these classes could focus on solving national necessities (for instance those related to neglected tropical diseases, or local genetic anomalies), ameliorating the lives of their fellow citizens. Finally, it could be used to develop similar locally developed cloud-based web-services geared to the specific needs of local scientists.