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TCS chooses Linux for bio-informatics tool

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BANGALORE: Infotech major Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) is developing an end-to-end bioinformatics software package "Biosuit" on Linux platform with domain knowledge from 20 leading Indian institutions.



The Biosuit project, in collaboration with the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) and supported by the Department of Biotechnology (DBT) will roll out the Alpha version in May with the full product expected to hit the market in one year, National Task Force on Bioinformatics chairman A S Kolaskar said.



Twenty leading academic bodies including Indian Institute of Science, Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology, Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics, IITs, Pune University and University of Hyderabad have contributed domain knowledge and tools for Biosuit.



`We estimate the Indian bioinformatics industry to touch $2 billion by 2006. For this, we need affordable world-class software and the TCS effort is on this. We are learning from the IT experience to create talented people in bioinformatics,` Kolaskar, who is also the vice-chancellor of Pune University said.

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