New Biological Products Made in Iran via Innovation in Bioinformatics
“Bioinformatics has grown as an independent research field and has been used by researchers for years as a part of in-silico studies. Therefore, the Bioinformatics Technology Unit was launched at Islamic Azad University’s Shahr-e Kord branch, as a tool for designing vaccines, drugs, etc. and we managed to produce new biological products by innovation in the approach and method of using this tool in biological plans and studies,” Arian Qorbani, a MS student of Microbial Biotechnology at Islamic Azad University’s Shahr-e Kord branch, told ANA.
“I started my bachelor's thesis in the field of multi-epitope gene vaccine plan, and the vaccine design section, due to its immunoinformatics approach, led to the formation of the technology core,” he added.
“The output of this project was the production of an animal genetic vaccine against bovine mastitis, which had a good ability to generate immunity against two important agents of this disease in dairy cows, namely Escherichia coli and Staphylococcus aureus. After that, I started new projects at Islamic Azad University’s Shahr-e Kord branch, with the aim of producing new antibiotic drugs,” Qorbani said.
Bioinformatics, as related to genetics and genomics, is a scientific subdiscipline that involves using computer technology to collect, store, analyze and disseminate biological data and information, such as DNA and amino acid sequences or annotations about those sequences.
Scientists and clinicians use databases that organize and index such biological information to increase our understanding of health and disease and, in certain cases, as part of medical care.
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