The Infectious Diseases Institute (IDI), Makerere University's College of Computing & Health Sciences (CHS) in partnership with the US Government National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) and the Office of Cyber Infrastructure and Computational Biology (NIH/NIAID/OCICB) established the African Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics & Data Sciences, one of the 2 such centers on the African continent.