He has been involved in several international and national projects funded by European Commission, IPT, and NIH and is mainly involved in bioinformatics education and training in Africa. Dr. Ghedira is a bioinformatician with biological background. He is mainly interested in functional genomics and integrative biology, analysis of NGS high-throughput data (genome assembly, metagenomics), comparative genomics, gene expression (microarrays) and gene regulation analysis, and database and web tools development.