This Friday 27th of November began the Course-workshop of Bioinformatical Tools for the Analysis of Bacterial Genomes in Ecology and Epidemiology, imparted at the Training Room of the Technological Innovation Park (PIT, Parque de Innovación Tecnológica) of the Autonomous University of Sinaloa (UAS, Universidad Autónoma de Sinaloa); on Friday 4th of December will be carried out the closing event and the delivery of participation certificates.

Organized by the PIT-UAS and the National Laboratory for Food Safety Research (Laboratorio Nacional para la Investigación en Inocuidad Alimentaria) of the Research Center for Food and Development (CIAD, Centro de Investigación en Alimentación y Desarrollo), such course-workshop has the objective of transmitting to the participants the necessary knowledge to use, handle and analyze data from technologies of DNA’s massive sequencing, by means of specialized software that generates genomes assemblies and examines them for their application to specific purposes.

The directors of this seminar are PhD Jaime Martínez Urtaza from the University of Bath’s Milner Centre for Evolution, PhD Cristóbal Quiroz from the CIAD and PhD Inés Fernando Vega López from the UAS. The impartation is in charge of professors and researchers from different organisms, such as PhD Luis Lozano from the National Autonomous University of Mexico’s Center for Genomic Sciences, PhD Mario dos Reis from the Queen Mary University of London and MS Gerardo Beltrán Gutiérrez from the UAS.

During the seven sessions of this seminar, the next modules will be imparted: “Unix and Linux”, “Bioinformatical analysis of genomes”, “Phylogenetics and estimation of populations’ divergence time”, “Genomics in ecology and epidemiology”, “Introduction to R programming language” and “Installation of specialized software for genomic analysis”.

“This course’s organization emerges from the necessity of counting on an interdisciplinary expert group with interest on collaborating for the bioinformatics’ development and application, stimulating linkage with the academic and industrial sectors and generating internationally relevant products”, commented PhD Vega López during the beginning of the event; besides being one of the course-workshop’s directors, he currently is a researcher at the PIT-UAS.

Written by Moroni Arellano (Communication and Diffusion, PIT-UAS), translated by Belem Ruiz (Edition and Communication, PIT-UAS).