Importance of biotechnology highlighted

Tribune News Service
http://www.tribuneindia.com/2009/20091222/harplus.htm#17


Yamunanagar, December 21


Bioinformatics and biotechnology have great scope in the country and abroad. So, students should do their best in these fields for their bright future, said Amit Kumar, CEO, Bioaxis Research Centre, Hyderabad, while explaining the method of analysing nucleic acids and proteins, prediction of third structure, microarray analysis, fields of functional genomic and medical informatics to students.
He was addressing a seminar on bioinformatics and biotechnology at the Life Sciences Department of DAV College for Girls here recently. Dr Satyajeet Parija, research coordinator, gave information about biological database, software and analysis of biological date and pharma research. Besides it, he also explained the techniques such as isolation of DNA from human blood and plants.