The Training Unit at the Faculty of Agriculture held the training program Bioinformatics, Level 2 (dealing with biological sequences), on 14/9/2017, the number of training hours (8).

Trainees: The training program was attended by 5 students and 13 graduates from the Faculty of Agriculture and Science to qualify them for techniques (dealing with biological sequences) as a transformational training through which they can raise their proficiency in the work of biotechnology.

Instructor: Dr. Ahmed Mansour Al-Zuhairi - Professor and Head of Genetics Department and Director of the Training Unit for Biotechnology and Genomic Informatics at the Faculty of Agriculture, Zagazig University

Program Coordinator: Dr. Mohamed Hassan Abdel Aziz - Assistant Professor, Genetics Department

Content of the training program:

• Identify genes using parallel sequences globally and locally
• Detection of mutagenic changes on a single nucleotide level
• Conduct advanced research in the gene bank
• Find genes of interest
• Perform a specific default analysis
• Design of specialized prefixes