Bahrain: Vaccines tailored to treat illnesses prevalent in Bahrain could soon be on the way as a database of genetic samples from the kingdom is poised to be included in the global ‘GenBank’.
GenBank, set up in 1982, is a database of annotated genes openly accessible and cited by millions of researchers around the world and is maintained by the National Centre for Biotechnology Information, part of the National Institutes of Health in the US .