TCS all set with 'Bio-Suite'
Tuesday, 09 March 2004, 20:30 IST
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HYDERABAD: Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) is eying life sciences as one of its growth engines. The firm is readying an exclusive software package for biological research. The package - named Bio-Suite - contains computational tools and algorithms, which help in deciphering vast amounts of genetic data and protein functions. The software is aimed at expediting the drug discovery as also bringing down the cost of research. The TCS package is aimed at providing information about functions of genes and proteins and identifying new drug candidates through smaller samples. "The human genome sequencing has unleashed vast amounts of data. The challenge now is to properly analyse this data using computational tools.
Source: IANS
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