The Continuing Education Division held the Bioinformatics Software Applications in Medical Fields scientific symposium

he College of Medicine at the University of Diyala held a symposium entitled “The Bioinformatics Applications in the Medical Fields.” The symposium was moderated by Lecturer Dr. Yasmine Sami Nasser from the Department of Biochemistry.
The symposium covered a detailed explanation of Bioinformatics tools programs, including the basics of how these programs work and their areas of use in a way that allows them to be applied in scientific research in various medical and biological specialties to solve biological problems, first by using them as a basis for developing techniques for diagnosing and treating various diseases and cancers, and secondly by using programs in the design and development of medicines. Several programs were mentioned, and their work depends on collecting biological information, starting from genes or genes to proteins and storing them.
The symposium focused on the method of using some Bioinformatics programs, as it showed some examples of the method of selecting peptides from a protein chain consisting of a large number of peptides, peptides for the purpose of using them in medical diagnosis and that selecting peptides using the laboratory method requires many experiments, which require a lot of time and effort. Peptides were selected by analyzing the chemical structure of the protein and selecting a series of amino acids suitable for developing a technology based on the strength of the bond between antibody and antigen.

I concluded that Bioinformatics programs allow the researcher to obtain various biological information and analysis methods for various genes and proteins in an easy and quick way, which helps to increase scientific production.