| Winston Hide is currently director of the South African National Bioinformatics Institute (SANBI) at the
University of the Western Cape in Cape Town. He received his BSc Hons in Zoology in 1981 from the University College Cardiff
and in 1991 received his PdD in Molecular Genetics from the Temple University in Philadelphia. He began his career at
the Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas at the Department of Cell Biology where he worked on the establishment of
automated sequencing for mutation screening. He also did protein sequence structure and function comparison and phylogenetic
analysis of molecular evolution of vertebrates at the University of Texas. After that he moved on to the Smithsonian Natural
History Museum where he did postdoctoral research in the development of novel systems for molecular phylogenetic analyses.
Back at the Baylor College of Medicine he did postdoctoral research in computational biology and genomics. From 1992 to 1994
he researched high performance genomics algorithm development at the University of Houston. His career in bioinformatics began
in 1994 at the MasPar Computer Corporation of which he was director.
In 1996 Prof Hide established Africa's only institute devoted to genomics and bioinformatics - SANBI - where he focuses
on the
development of research, education, training, database and software development and biotechnology both locally and
internationally.
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Prof Hide has broad experience in complex biological analyses and has published in areas of
molecular evolution, algorithm design, gene expression, databasing and disease gene discovery and characterisation in a wide range of publications, including Nature Genetics,
Genome Research, Nucleic Acids Research, Bioinformatics, etc.
The South African National Bioinformatics Institute is responsible for development of bioinformatics within South
Africa and its training globally through the International Star Alliance global bioinformatics training programme.
His laboratory has supported the development of Bioinformatics in Africa, and is responsible in part for the World
Health Organisation Genomics and Bioinformatics capacity development initiative in Africa and is a grant holder from
the World Health Organisation for the development of a network of sites worldwide for the analysis of trypanosome
diseases. He is a regular trainer at World Health Organisation bioinformatics workshops.
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