TCS forays into bioinformatics

By Our Corporate Reporter

CHENNAI, AUG. 27. Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), a global software solutions and consulting services enterprise, has entered into a multi-year collaborative agreement with the Hyderabad-based Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics (CDFD), a leading R&D laboratory under the Department of Biotechnology, Union Government. The agreement was signed on August 25 in New Delhi in the presence of Dr. Murli Manohar Joshi, Union Minister for Science and Technology, according to a company release. TCS and CDFD will work together in the rapidly evolving area of bioinformatics, which is an interdisciplinary science where computational methods are used to analyse biological information.

The agreement envisages that TCS and CDFD will collaborate in bioinformatics and genomics related areas.CDFD will assist TCS in developing specialised software products in identified niche areas of biotechnology. In addition, TCS and CDFD will together offer a top-quality intensive training programme to select TCS trainees.

Dr. M. Vidyasagar, executive vice president in charge of advanced technology at TCS, has stated that ``we are very excited to be collaborating with CDFD, which is young, dynamic and India's fastest growing laboratory''.

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