Danmarks Tekniske Universitet (Denmark)

Danmarks Tekniske Universitet (DTU) has a long track record of conducting capacity building and have successfully established genomic capacity across several sites in Tanzania since 2014 and since 2023 extended to include Burundi, Rwanda, Kenya and Uganda. DTU has also since 2010 provided freely available web-based bioinformatics services (www.genomicepidemiology.org), with international recognition where the alignment engine behind the methods are in the top 5% most used tools on CONDA/BIOCONDA (https://bioconda.github.io/recipes/kma/README.html) and >15,000 citations. DTU has also together with Erasmus University Medical Center established field applicable sequencing including laptop based bioinformatics that have already been deployed and used by the partners in this project (Masirika et al. 2024). DTU leads the GREAT-LIFE consortium that provides capacity building training, leading to foundational discoveries that will be further researched in this proposed project.