TY - JOUR
T1 - Rising Strengths Hong Kong SAR in Bioinformatics
AU - Chakraborty, Chiranjib
AU - George Priya Doss, C.
AU - Zhu, Hailong
AU - Agoramoorthy, Govindasamy
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by the Research Grants Council of Hong Kong (212111 and 212631), Faculty Research Grant (12-13/061) and partially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (61134013 and 91029301). The authors take this opportunity to thank the management of Galgotias University and VIT University for providing the facilities and encouragement to carry out this work.
PY - 2017/6/1
Y1 - 2017/6/1
N2 - Hong Kong’s bioinformatics sector is attaining new heights in combination with its economic boom and the predominance of the working-age group in its population. Factors such as a knowledge-based and free-market economy have contributed towards a prominent position on the world map of bioinformatics. In this review, we have considered the educational measures, landmark research activities and the achievements of bioinformatics companies and the role of the Hong Kong government in the establishment of bioinformatics as strength. However, several hurdles remain. New government policies will assist computational biologists to overcome these hurdles and further raise the profile of the field. There is a high expectation that bioinformatics in Hong Kong will be a promising area for the next generation.
AB - Hong Kong’s bioinformatics sector is attaining new heights in combination with its economic boom and the predominance of the working-age group in its population. Factors such as a knowledge-based and free-market economy have contributed towards a prominent position on the world map of bioinformatics. In this review, we have considered the educational measures, landmark research activities and the achievements of bioinformatics companies and the role of the Hong Kong government in the establishment of bioinformatics as strength. However, several hurdles remain. New government policies will assist computational biologists to overcome these hurdles and further raise the profile of the field. There is a high expectation that bioinformatics in Hong Kong will be a promising area for the next generation.
KW - Bioinformatics education
KW - Bioinformatics research
KW - Government role
KW - Hong Kong SAR
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U2 - 10.1007/s12539-016-0147-x
DO - 10.1007/s12539-016-0147-x
M3 - Review article
C2 - 26961385
AN - SCOPUS:85019230402
SN - 1913-2751
VL - 9
SP - 224
EP - 236
JO - Interdisciplinary sciences, computational life sciences
JF - Interdisciplinary sciences, computational life sciences
IS - 2
ER -