Bioinformatics is a key life science R & D activity

Rapid advances in technologies like genomic as well as bioinformatics coupled with a uniquecollaboration between industry and academia are beginning to show the true potential for the humangenome project to affect patient healthcare. By knowing the sequence of the human genome and beginningto unravel the location and sequence of all genes and their variants, scientists can establish a betterunderstanding of the mechanisms for diseases, with subsequent availability of new treatments. Because ofthe vast amount of data coming out of the Human Genome Project, bioinformatics tools and databases havebecome an integral part of pharmacogenomic and disease susceptibility gene research.