Workshop highlights importance of DNA sequencing

The workshop was joint effort by Higher Education Commission (HEC) Pakistan and Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS)

ISLAMABAD: A workshop highlighted the importance of DNA sequencing of whole genomes of endangered species of animals and plants in Pakistan.

A delegation of five eminent scientists from Beijing Institute of Genomics (BIG) lead by its director Prof Yiming Bao conducted the workshop while around a hundred participants registered from different institutes of Islamabad.



National Centre for Bioinformatics (NCB) Quaid-i-Azam University (QAU) had organised the three-day "Pakistan-China Genomics Workshop" with the objective to train PhD scholars and faculty in handling of big data related to life sciences.

The workshop was a joint effort by Higher Education Commission (HEC) Pakistan and Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). `

Published in The Express Tribune, July 25^th, 2018.