Intelligent Bio science for disease free life: Kalam

Bhubaneswar, Nov 29: President A P J Abdul Kalam today said a new science called Intelligent Bio science will soon lead to a disease free, happy and more intelligent human habitat with more longevity and high human capabilities.

Pressure is mounting on the pharmaceutical companies to reduce or at least control costs, and have a growing need for new informatic tools to help manage the influx of data from genomic, and turn that data into tomorrow's drugs, Dr Kalam said while laying the foundation stone of the International Institute of Information Technology at Gothapatna, on the outskirt of the capital city here.

The convergence of bio science and IT into Bio-informatics has given the thrust to researchers for genomic-based drug discovery and development. The Bio-informatics data play a vital role and have emerged as a business model for the medical and pharmaceutical sector.

Key areas such as gene prediction, data mining, protein structure modelling and prediction, protein folding and stability, macromolecular assembly and modeling of complex biological systems are thriving and IT has major role to play in these areas in bringing the tools to manage the experiments.

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