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Representing a marriage of IT and Biotechnology,
Bio-informatics is going to be one of the most prodigious growth
areas in the next two decades . It is subject that promises to pay
extra ordinary dividends not only in the designing new drugs and
therapies , but also in basic understanding of life it self Biotechnology
research generates such massive volume of information , so quickly
, that we need news and swifter ways of craning the deluge of data(Specifically
nucleic acid and protein sequence)being churned out by the research
lab. Digitalising and moving thus enormous quantum data over 2,000
pc disks, requires high end computational and statistical technology
and sophisticated soft ware solutions. Oracle has incorporated special
features in its data base to study genetics.
However the real revolution in cell biology is not the decoding
of genomes but observing the pattern of gene activities and interaction
with these sequences. The race is now between those who can be translate
new drug discoveries and therapies.
Companies need people at all levels- biologists and biostatsticians
with IT skills or IT Professional with serious interest in biology.
Suddenly , Microbiology has got a new least of life with the emergence
of Bio -informatics and student should option for long term courses.
While a master's or a Ph D is preferred at the science and knowledge
of Java , unix , c, c++ , RDBMS , such as Oracle and sybase , CORBA
, CGI , and Web scripting at the it end.
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