Chadia ED-DRIOUCH is a second year PhD student in Bioinformatics at the National School of Applied Sciences of Tangier, Abdelmalek Essaâdi University, Morocco. Her research interests are in the areas of machine learning and gene expression data analysis. Her current research focuses on the integration of the ontological information for the improvement of the target selection process in NGS data. She holds a master?s degree in Bioinformatics and Complex Systems from the National School of Applied Sciences of Tangier (Morocco) and a Bachelor's degree in Mathematics and Computer Science from the Faculty of Sciences of Oujda (Morocco). She did an intership in the INDATAMIN society of biotechnology, Oujda, Morocco. She has also participated in The CODATA-RDA Research Data Science Summer School and The CODATA-RDA Research Data Science Applied Workshop on Bioinformatics at the International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy.