Dr. Alaa Edeh is a bioinformatician and an Assistant Professor of Genetics at the Department of Medical Laboratory Sciences, Al-Quds University. She did her PhD in Epigenetics deregulation in cancer. Her main field of experience is analyzing next generation and nanopore sequencing data using Unix operating system, Python, Nextflow and R programming languages. Currently, she is involved in developing tool for an ultra-sensitive cancer detection and monitoring using oxford Nanopore sequencing technology and integration of multiple bioinformatics tools including methylome deconvolution and estimating tumor fraction in cell-free DNA.