A doctoral dissertation was discussed at the Institute of Informatics for Post Graduate Studies at the University of Information Technology and Communications on the development of an advanced algorithm for analyzing DNA sequences using genomic signal processing and deep learning techniques.

The dissertation, which is for the researcher Ammar Abd Rabbah Sakran, enhances the accuracy of identifying coding regions in the genome. It also demonstrated the accurate identification of protein-coding regions in DNA sequences, which is a fundamental problem in computational biology and biodata sciences.

The dissertation relied on two main approaches: signal processing using singular value decomposition and modified spectrum, which has proven highly efficient in identifying coding regions, and deep learning via hierarchical attention techniques, which enabled it to focus on critical genomic regions with high accuracy.

After extensive discussion, the committee decided to accept the dissertation and grant the researcher a PhD with distinction.