Pune, March 11, 2002

As many as twenty four leading pharmaceutical, agricultural and biotechnology related organizations participated in a day long Industry Meet on Bioinformatics hosted by the Bioinformatics Team of Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) on March 08, 2002.

The objective of the Industry Meet was to provide an insight into the potential of High Performance Computing in Bioinformatics. The meet also provided a forum to discuss the computing requirements for biotechnology and Bioinformatics.

Inaugurating the meet Shri R.K. Arora, Executive Director, C-DAC said that C-DAC with its expertise in both High Performance Computing and Bioinformatics could play a major role in providing support to the Indian pharma industry in escalating the speed of drug discovery process. Shri Subhash Kapre, Executive Director, Serum Institute of India gave his opening remarks.

Participants from Serum Institute of India, Helixense Pvt. Ltd., Jubilant Biosys, Dr. Reddy's Lab, Confederation of Indian Industries (CII) Frontier Life Sciences, Emcure, Patni Computer Systems, Mahindra British Telecom, Persistent Systems and other organizations were given a perspective of the cutting edge area in bioinformatics and the activities of the Bioinformatics team of C-DAC.

The Bioinformatics team of C-DAC is involved in diverse activities. Its expertise lies in the area of Molecular Modeling, Genome Sequence Analysis and Genetic Algorithms. The team is also in the process of expanding its activities to other areas of Bioinformatics. C-DAC is amongst the few organizations in India that supports R&D in Bioinformatics.

Recently, C-DAC was in news for initiating collaborations with various Indian and foreign pharma companies. C-DAC is planning to invest a substantial amount over the next one year for new development activities using software tools.

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