On Thursday, May 26th, SciFY organized a seminar on Bioinformatics at the INNOVATHENS Innovation and Entrepreneurship Hub of the Technopolis City of Athens.

Over 100 people attended an introduction to the world of Bioinformatics by Dr. Artemis Hatzigeorgiou, professor of Bioinformatics at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the University of Thessaly and associate professor at the Hellenic Pasteur Institute, to learn about the “Fruitful collaboration of two sciences”.

Initially, Dr. Artemis Hatzigeorgiou referred to the most critical steps taken in the field of Bioinformatics. She also discussed research and applied trends connecting the worlds of informatics and biology.

Such trends include New Generation Sequencing, the experimental verification of microRNA function, and the analysis of biological research texts using Natural Language Processing.

The role of bioinformatics in work related to, for example, gene editing was also discussed, as well as how IT tools facilitate the processes of analysis and retrieval of knowledge related to biology and modern treatments. See her presentation here.

Mr. Petros Kaloupis opened the event, discussing his initiative related to Assistive Technologies. He spoke of the first social network with access for the disabled, DisabledBook. It is a social media to connect, serve, and interact with all social or voluntary services in Greece or abroad.

Watch the DisabledBook team’s interview with CNN here.
For more information on DisabledBook, click here.

A big thank you to Dr. Artemis Hatzigeorgiou, Mr. Petros Kaloupis, INNOVATHENS, and all our friends who attended and participated in the seminar, asking interesting questions and once again contributing to the realization of our vision for the free dissemination of knowledge!

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