In March 2013, I obtained my PhD in Bioinformatics from the South African National Bioinformatics Institute at the University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa. I am currently employed as a Senior Bioinformatics Scientist at the Sequencing Core Facility, National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD), Johannesburg, South Africa. NICD is a national public health institute of South Africa, providing reference microbiology, virology, epidemiology, surveillance and public health research to support the government’s response to communicable disease threats