Electric Genetics bags R10 million ($1.3 million) investment
Quality management team and world-class products attract Bioventures, South Africa's sole biotechnology venture capital firm.
7 May 2003  [more]  [more - pdf]

Varsity emerges as Africa's bioinformatics hub
Engineering News: Africa's largest research supercomputer has been turned on for biomedical research at the University of the Western Cape (UWC), a historically-disadvantaged institution.
19 July 2002  [more - pdf]

Bioinformatics firm pursues drug discovery
Engineering News: One of three postgraduates from the University of the Western Cape (UWC) hired by Electric Genetics Junaid Gamieldien is responsible for the innovation behind the company's new drug discovery division and its collaboration with Harvard Medical School.
12 July 2002  [more - pdf]

Meet Crunchie the Cray, the 'Dancing Hippo' of South African Bioinformatics
GenomeWeb: On Monday, the South African National Bioinformatics Institute fired up the continent's most powerful supercomputer, an 8-gigaflop Cray expected to jumpstart the country's genomics research.
11 July 2002  [more - pdf]

Asmal turns on Africa's largest supercomputer
ITWeb: The University of the Western Cape took a major step forward for its bioinformatics arm, the South African National Bioinformatics Institute, when education minister Kadar Asmal switched on the Cray SV1 Supercomputer this morning.
8 July 2002  [more]  [more - pdf]

UWC supercomputer set to 'crunch' HIV
Independent Online: The University of the Western Cape has just received the ultimate in research hardware - a supercomputer that will help its scientists to research into HIV in South Africa and to map human genes.
8 July 2002  [more]  [more - pdf]

Super-fast computer aids genetic research
Mail & Guardian online: It may not be able to provide the answer to life, the universe and everything else, but the new million-dollar supercomputer about to arrive at the...
14 June 2002  [more - pdf]

Cure for South Africa's Ills
Wired News: Call her an idealist or call her a geek, but the CEO of the only bioinformatics company in South Africa believes many of Africa's problems will be solved by scientists, hackers and open-source networks.
8 April 2002  [more]  [more - pdf]

SA scientist nails TB bug
Sunday Times: A South African scientist has made a breakthrough that could lead to the development of better drugs to treat the killer disease tuberculosis.
31 March 2002  [more]  [more - pdf]

Cracking the 'code of life'
Engineering News: Twenty bioinformatics specialists met in Cape Town last month to advance the tools critical to cracking the code of life.
15 March 2002  [more - pdf]

Western Cape genome informatics success story
Engineering News: The Cape Information Technology Initiative (Citi) has pronounced genome informatics company Electric Genetics (EG) a 'Western Cape success story'.
8 March 2002  [more - pdf]

Computer buffs chase a common language
Business Day: Open-source software is ideal for managing human genome information, but research units are not working together.
26 February 2002  [more]  [more - pdf]

Getting Things Done, Ground Zero
O'Reilly Network: On our way to the Titan missile silo in Green Valley Arizona, I introduced myself to Tania Broveak Hide...
31 January 2002  [more - pdf]

20 Hackers + 1 Whiteboard + 1 Windowless Room = Open Bio Database Access
GenomeWeb: Part I of the first-ever biohackathon wrapped up this afternoon with a new specification for accessing biological sequence databases across multiple languages and platforms.
31 January 2002  [more - pdf]

On The Air
Engineering News: SAfm anchor John Perlman: It is that time on a Friday when we engage in some TechnoTalk with ...
20 July 2001  [more - pdf]

Software Helps Human Science
Engineering News: Cape Town firm Electric Genetics - South Africa's only bioinformatics company - is achieving success with its software designed to analyse human genome data.
13 July 2001  [more - pdf]

SA researchers snare blindness gene
Mail and Guardian: RESEARCHERS in South Africa and Britain have isolated the gene that causes retinitis pigmentosa, a leading cause of inherited blindness affecting one million people worldwide...
1 July 2001  [more - pdf]

LION Licenses New EST Clustering Software to Intervet.
GenomeWeb: Lion Bioscience has licensed its soon-to-be launched EST clustering analysis software everEST, as well as genomeScout, its genome analysis software, to the Netherlands-based animal health company Intervet International...
6 March 2001  [more - pdf]

IT@WORK
Engineering News: Winner of the research and development category of the Technology Top 100 Award, Electric Genetics (EG), of Cape Town, is believed to be the only bioinformatics company in Africa.
2 February 2001  [more - pdf]

Analysing an organism's DNA
Business Day: BIOTECHNOLOGY and genetics have grown into large industries in highly developed parts of the world...
30 November 2000  [more]  [more - pdf]

The Technology Top 100 award winners
Business Day: The country's leading companies show a broad range of initiatives and innovation.
30 November 2000  [more]  [more - pdf]

Genome Computing in SA
News24: Cape Town - Do you realise there is a world-class computational genomics research institute and genome informatics company located right here in South Africa?
27 November 2000  [more - pdf]

South African Start-up Electrifies Clustering Software Market
GenomeWeb: Electric Genetics hopes to corner the market for clustering software with the release next month of updated versions of its core products, StackPack and Stackdb.
22 November 2000  [more - pdf]

Everybody Into the Research Pool
Wired News: Researchers in South Africa are developing a cutting-edge genomics technology and using it as a vehicle for improving post-apartheid black culture.
11 October 2000.  [more]  [more - pdf]

Genome Map Heralds Cheap Drugs
Wired News: Top genomics researchers from around the world are gathering in Miami this week to explore ways of using the mountains of information created by the Human Genome Project.
13 September 2000.  [more]  [more - pdf]

Gene code benefits long way off'
Business Day: It is likely to be a while before they permeate health system...
28 June 2000  [more]  [more - pdf]

Bioinformatics and the Developing World
Biotechnology and Development Monitor: Bioinformatics is the science of managing and analyzing biological information...
December 1999  [more]  [more - pdf]

Blindness gene comes to light
Mail and Guardian: Western Cape scientists, working with their counterparts in Texas, have discovered the gene that causes one of the most common forms of blindness.
9 July 1999  [more - pdf]