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Manama - AGU: The Arabian Gulf University (AGU) recently announced that it the tenth training course activities for bioinformatics, jointly organised by the King Fahd Chair for Biotechnology and the Biotechnology Programme in the Department of Life Sciences at the College of Graduate Studies (CGS) in the University, will launch from AGU headquarters in Manama from October 25, 2020, to November 4, 2020. The Chair will also hold a workshop specialising in data structure and algorithms.
On the occasion, Chairman of the King Fahad bin Abdulaziz Academic Chair for Medical Biotechnology Dr Mohammed Dahmani, stated that AGU is the only Gulf university that has offered specialised training in the field of bioinformatics at a global level for ten years, adding that the tenth training course in bioinformatics consists of a clinical bioinformatics workshop that has become an integral part of the daily medical practice.
Additionally, Dr Dahmani said that this course is directed to specialists in biological sciences from various fields (medical, pharmaceutical, environmental, industrial, marine and others), as well as all those interested in bioinformatics, as the course introduces theoretical and practical training that enables participants to use bioinformatics tools and resources to address and solve biological issues. Therefore, the course would enhance participants' capabilities in all areas of biological research, as the programme combines lectures, tutorials and practical laboratory sessions.
"The training in this course is carried out by the members of the Life Sciences Department at CGS, consisting of a group of international experts in bioinformatics from Switzerland, Canada, France and the Pasteur Institute (France), who possess high levels of competence. The course grants interested students three credit hours," Dr Dahmani explained.
Moreover, the course deals with topics of databases and bioinformatics, genomic databases and gene banks, genome browsing tools, analysis of vital information and its transformation into images, recent developments in genetic and molecular sciences and pharmaceutical compounds based on biological antibiotics.
The three-day data and algorithms workshop, which is organised on the side-lines of the course, aims to provide a background on algorithms and data structures. In this context, a basic outline of algorithm design through algorithms' validation and investigating its optimization will be presented.
The workshop undertaken by Computing Science Expert Dr Adel Bohula, who recently joined AGU, and it includes an introduction to algorithms, simple basic algorithms, iterative and recursive algorithms. It also provides an idea of the skills of sequential search, binary search, and sorting algorithms. On its final day, participants will be able to validate algorithms, learn about algorithm complexity, and to solve algorithmic problems.
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