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Pune, Aug 3, 2000
 'Having
missed the opportunity to contribute to the first draft
of the Human Genome that was announced recently, India
should now concentrate on preparing a Gene Plan and
participate in the research for tracking the disease
causing genes.' observed
Dr. J.R. Arora, Advisor, Department of Biotechnology,
New Delhi. He was delivering the inaugural address at
the workshop on 'High Performance Computing Applications
In Bioinformatics' organized by The Centre For Development
of Advanced Computing (C-DAC)
here. 
Elaborating further,
Dr. Arora emphasized on the role of C-DAC in addressing
the problems and issues in the areas of Data
Warehousing, Sequencing applications, Computing
Engine for Genomic Sequences and Data mining for Bioinformatics
and added that opportunities in India were conducive
to this kind of research as the infrastructure was in
place and trained manpower was available. The workshop
was being conducted at the most opportune time, following
the announcement of the first draft of the human genome,
he added.
Dr. P.B. Vidyasagar,
Director, Bioinformatics Centre of the University of
Pune in his Presidential address expressed the need
for C-DAC and the Bioinformatics center with the Pune
University to come together to set up an institute of
Bioinformatics, which could conduct courses and train
students in this specialized field.
Speaking on the occasion,
Shri. R.K. Arora, Executive Director, C-DAC, elaborated
on the role of C-DAC in the field of Bioinformatics
and the High
Performance applications developed on PARAM for
this purpose.
Dr. V. Sunderarajan
of the Bioinformatics group of C-DAC elaborated on the
theme and purpose of the workshop. Dr. Rajendra Joshi
proposed the vote of thanks.
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