Biotech Updates

Bioinformatics Workshop in Egypt

August 29, 2008

The Association of Agricultural Research Institutions in the Near East and North Africa (AARINENA) will organize, in collaboration with the Agricultural Genetic Engineering Research Institute (AGERI) and the support of the Global Forum for Agricultural Research (GFAR), will offer an introductory course in bioinformatics on November 23-December 2008 in Giza, Egypt. Topics will include information databases, sequence alignment, sequence similarity search, structural bioinformatics, and functional genomics.

Course and sponsorship information can be obtained from Dr. Dina El-Khishin at khishin@ageri.sci.eg