Win Hide is the founder and Director of the National Bioinformatics Institute situated at the University of Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa. He also holds the appointment of professor of genomics at UWC. Work at the Institute has centred on generating representations of genes in the human genome, in collaboration with the European Molecular Biology network (EMBnet), the US Department of Energy Human genome Project, the Brazilian genome project and the International Human Genome Consortium. The Institute is funded from the MRC, the NRF and several research grants. Together with its commercial partner, Electric Genetics, the institute is a recent recipient of a $ 0.75M South African National Innovation Fund for the development of a Human Genome Disease analysis system, the first part of which is now in use throughout the world at over 100 research institutions, including Harvard, Yale, Oxford, Cambridge, University of Tokyo, and Pasteur Institute. Commercial biotechnology companies also pay to use the technology, and large companies such as Swiss-based Nestle have recently purchased licenses. Hide is a member of the National CODATA committee and sits on the scientific advisory board of biotechnology companies in the US and France. Hide is scientific organizer of the National genomics initiative. Hide's back ground is in evolutionary biology and genomics. His experience is in development of high performance tools for the analysis of the genome, and in implementations of genomics in biotechnology.

Currently Hide's work focuses on the detection and analysis of microbial virulence genes, (a collaboration with Harvard University Medical School) and works on the development of reconstruction of human expressed genes and transcribed sequence structure.

Hide was a Keck Computational Fellow in the USA at Baylor College of Medicine human Genome Centre and also a fellow at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History in Washington DC. He has been director of Genomics at MasPar computer corporation, in Silicon Valley, and is a doctoral graduate of Temple University in Philadelphia.