SCOPE OF BIOINFORMATICS

You all are thinking oh again one more post for scope of Bioinformatics. But believe me this post is different from other articles except name. We all are aware of what actually bio informatics is but now question arises is what is scope of this field then we will find huge list of answers like
"Oh Bio informatics its very popular field and have lot of scope and potential you should go for it"
                                                                                                                             -- Academician
"This field has ruined my life there is no scope of Bio informatics in india IT is best option to choose"
                                                                                                                            -- Msc in Bio informatics
"Yeah Bio informatics great field buddy very interesting though it has no scope in india but who cares i will fly abroad to do MBA"
                                                                                                                            -- B.tech in Bio informatics
These are few excerpts by our daily to daily conversations regarding bio-informatics with different people. all are having their different views about this promising field.Ya it is correct that current scenario is not looking much promising but after sometime situation will be different but for that we need to change our view and ways to handle bio-informatics. Below i am presenting few statistics :

• "The offshoring of bioinformatics services to India has been driven by the growing demand for biotechnology products, India's rich biodiversity driving its clinical trials industry, a strong base for pharmaceutical research and development and IT services, and well-educated low cost English speaking human capital"
• "India's entry into the product patent regime in 2005 has further boosted the confidence of buyers to outsource bioinformatics services to India."
• "ValueNotes / KnowGenix report forecasts that the Indian bioinformatics services outsourcing opportunity grows at a CAGR of 25% rising from USD 32 million in 2007 to USD 62 million by 2010." 
• "Indian bioinformatics vendor space comprises pure play bioinformatics service providers, multinationals and IT companies servicing the life sciences vertical."
• "Pharma and biotech CRAMS players have also started offering informatics services."
• "Indian vendors offer integrated bioinformatics solutions such as biological and chemical databases, data analysis, data mining, bio-medical text mining and customized tool development among others."

These are few excerpts from current status of Bio-informatics and its very clear from above points that future of bio informatics is very bright but still we are far behind from point from where we can lead world and give new dimensions to bio informatics.I found few reasons based on my observation which i am discussing below.
       

• In past there is lot of hype about bioinformatics.That's why we have many universities in India which are offering degree/diplomas (M.Sc., B.Sc., B.Tech, etc. ) in bioinformatics. Interestingly most of universities do not have trained bioinformaticians still they are able to attract lots of students.Because of that students are facing problem in finding the jobs.
• Job opportunity in Bioinformatics industry is limited by the fact that in a typical company the number of Bioinformatician is around 20%. Rest are programmers, pure biologist, pure statistician and mathematician, testing guys, support, technical writers and administrative staff etc.Still there is place for good candidates specially who can work with logistics, understand mathematics specially algorithms and can incorporate them to biological problems. Some companies working on biological database employ a lot of Biologist with some understanding of Bioinformatics.

       That means we need paradigm shift in educational structure where students not only need to learn theoretical concepts,mugging literature they also need to learn how to do things practically for this we need good finishing schools where we can gain both knowledge and experience of doing things.

"IBAB(INSTITUTE OF BIOINFORMATICS AND APPLIED BIOTECHNOLOGY)" is such a numero uno which will take you on complete tour of bio informatics and you will get perfectly blended mixture of academics and industrial experience.Course structure is designed in such a way that student will get knowledge of currently prevailing practices in bio informatics along with other soft skills needed to survive in corporate culture.Here you will get golden chance to study under guidance of well known people of their field .which will makes you competent enough to lead in bio informatics.For further reference please visit http://www.ibab.ac.in/

IBAB is an Institute which is catering our current need of creating expertise and leaders both locally and globally . It is their continuous endeavor to polish our talented pool to make them competent enough to explore more and more opportunities in Bio informatics and make our own position across globe.


This Post is to make people aware of unlimited potential and opportunities in bioinformatics what eYE sEE in bIOINFORMATICS along with the reason why we are lagging in this field and what measures we should take to overcome these limitations.

Thats All for today !!!!!!!!!!

Will be back with new topic ........

THANKS 
VIKAS SHARMA