The Department of Biology, in cooperation with the Continuing Education Unit at the College of Science, has organized a lecture entitled “The Comparative Analysis of the Total Genome of Living Organisms” in the presence of a number of students, professors and those concerned with microbiology. The lecture aimed to identify the knowledge of heterogenes and similar genes as well as to determine the type of heterogeneity as a replacement, deletion or addition, and how to compare genes found in the total genome of living organisms from the basic analyzes in bioinformatics so as to know the heterogenes and similar genes to determine their types.
The lecture was presented by Assist. Prof. Dr. Mohamed Abdul Rahman, included highlighting programs with the ability to identify missing genes from the strains under study compared to the strain used as a primary source for comparison, as well as identifying incomplete genes in the sequence of nucleic acids and identifying genes in more than one copy of the same genome, in which heterogeneity is not real and is excluded from analysis, indicating that the identification of heterogeneous genes is essential because heterogenetics are the reason for the survival of bacteria for a long time in the host that is like a human and the resistance of his immune system, pointing out that this program is initiated by the University of Oxford, which contains a large number of important software in the basic analyses of bioinformatics.
