SILICO BIOTECH

The advancements in molecular biology have made biotechnology a billion-dollar business over the last two decades. Recent developments in instrumentation, nano-technology and information technology have provided the biomedical research community with enormous amounts of diverse information governing biological systems. Consequently, there is an urgent need for information storage, curation, analysis and retrieval (ISCAR) using bioinformatics tools. Though the very definition of bioinformatics is debatable, there is a general agreement about the importance of certain fundamental concepts. Broadly, bioinformatics is the marriage between modern biology and information technology to glean new knowledge from redundant databases. Bioinformatics helps researchers gather, standardize, combine and manipulate data to tease out the knowledge they contain. In future, it will guide in performing in silico biotechnological experiments to aid biomedical research and application. Hence "SILICO BIOTECH" highlights the simple relationships between different disciplines that govern the complex drug discovery process and its relevance in health care.