Ranking Second in Turkey in the TEKNOFEST 2022 Artificial Intelligence in Health Category, our DMT INFORMATIC Team Received its Award from the Chairman of the Board of TEKNOFEST, Mr. Selçuk Bayraktar

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Our DMT INFORMATIC Team, consisting of our 4th grade students Dila Nur Çakal and Mevlüt Köz from the Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics and 4th grade student at the Bioengineering Department, Mehmet Tevfik Kara, who were supervised by Assoc. Prof. Kıvanç Bilecen, the Assistant Dean of Agriculture and Natural Sciences of our university, came second in Turkey in the TEKNOFEST 2022 Artificial Intelligence in Health Contest with their projects on bioinformatics analysis of outputs obtained from new generation DNA sequencing platforms. Our students' project aims to visualize DNA sequences faster and more accurately with an artificial intelligence-based approach in metagenomic data analysis, which is used in the identification of microorganisms in many fields, especially health. In the first stage of the analysis process, which consists of two stages, DNA sequences obtained from new generation DNA sequencing platforms are visualized and the family of organisms they belong to is quickly determined with the artificial intelligence approach. In the second stage, unique organism detection is performed faster and more accurately with a BLAST-based algorithm on this narrowed data set. Thanks to this hybrid approach based on DNA visualization and artificial intelligence, one of the main objectives of the project is to shorten the processing time in standard office computers and to obtain more accurate results with less processing power compared to standard algorithms in the evaluation of 16S/18S rRNA, ITS or whole genome metagenomic study data. We congratulate our students and their supervisors and wish them continued success.