As the technology enhancing people are working in new discipline. One of the emerging businesses of new world is BioInformatics. It is a very hot business abroad, but the question is where are we to get into that. Are we ready?, if not they what should be done to be ready?
What is BioInformatics:
BioInformatics is a field that combines efforts of biology, statistics and information technology together to work on new research on human cell, protein structure, and DNA strucuture, and analysis of acquired data to perform certain experiments that will enhance research in drug findings and disgnosis of diseases.
Scope of business:
These days major business investment is going into this domain. over billion dollar is investment is done and more is coming. For us as a developing nation there should be something we need to find out what we can get out of this investment, for now it can only be data management, but as time passes we can extend it to other things related to BioInformatics.
How we can achieve it?
We need to prepare ourself for that and jump into it. but the question is how can we prepare ourselves. Its a nice questions to ask and a difficult one to answer but its not impossible. As a first resort we plan a strategy, select related people, make business people realize it is a domain to invest in, educate people in domain. For that new courses can be introduced at graduation and masters level in selected universities, not now but in a year or two we will be able to have some workforce to work on that. Though it is difficult and requires patience but we need to do, and it is the time to start, its better early then late.
One more thing that comes in my mind, is our culture is crowd oriented, where the crowd is going whole country start running in that direction (worst example we have is operation badar), we need to stop it, we should only train enough people for this and start increasing as business increase. It will not be a good to create a hype of it.
It is good that our government is taking initiatives in this sector and start planning but they need to go fast pace rather then doing it their normal pace, which generally makes them early starters but last one to end.
Hope things will change and people, specially the businessmen of our country give a serious thought to it, and for once they stop just thinking for their short term profit and think of long term profit to country and themselves.
Wednesday, February 23, 2005
As the technology enhancing people are working in new discipline. One of the emerging businesses of new world is BioInformatics. It is a very hot business abroad, but the question is where are we to get into that. Are we ready?, if not they what should be done to be ready?
What is BioInformatics:
BioInformatics is a field that combines efforts of biology, statistics and information technology together to work on new research on human cell, protein structure, and DNA strucuture, and analysis of acquired data to perform certain experiments that will enhance research in drug findings and disgnosis of diseases.
Scope of business:
These days major business investment is going into this domain. over billion dollar is investment is done and more is coming. For us as a developing nation there should be something we need to find out what we can get out of this investment, for now it can only be data management, but as time passes we can extend it to other things related to BioInformatics.
How we can achieve it?
We need to prepare ourself for that and jump into it. but the question is how can we prepare ourselves. Its a nice questions to ask and a difficult one to answer but its not impossible. As a first resort we plan a strategy, select related people, make business people realize it is a domain to invest in, educate people in domain. For that new courses can be introduced at graduation and masters level in selected universities, not now but in a year or two we will be able to have some workforce to work on that. Though it is difficult and requires patience but we need to do, and it is the time to start, its better early then late.
One more thing that comes in my mind, is our culture is crowd oriented, where the crowd is going whole country start running in that direction (worst example we have is operation badar), we need to stop it, we should only train enough people for this and start increasing as business increase. It will not be a good to create a hype of it.
It is good that our government is taking initiatives in this sector and start planning but they need to go fast pace rather then doing it their normal pace, which generally makes them early starters but last one to end.
Hope things will change and people, specially the businessmen of our country give a serious thought to it, and for once they stop just thinking for their short term profit and think of long term profit to country and themselves.
What is BioInformatics:
BioInformatics is a field that combines efforts of biology, statistics and information technology together to work on new research on human cell, protein structure, and DNA strucuture, and analysis of acquired data to perform certain experiments that will enhance research in drug findings and disgnosis of diseases.
Scope of business:
These days major business investment is going into this domain. over billion dollar is investment is done and more is coming. For us as a developing nation there should be something we need to find out what we can get out of this investment, for now it can only be data management, but as time passes we can extend it to other things related to BioInformatics.
How we can achieve it?
We need to prepare ourself for that and jump into it. but the question is how can we prepare ourselves. Its a nice questions to ask and a difficult one to answer but its not impossible. As a first resort we plan a strategy, select related people, make business people realize it is a domain to invest in, educate people in domain. For that new courses can be introduced at graduation and masters level in selected universities, not now but in a year or two we will be able to have some workforce to work on that. Though it is difficult and requires patience but we need to do, and it is the time to start, its better early then late.
One more thing that comes in my mind, is our culture is crowd oriented, where the crowd is going whole country start running in that direction (worst example we have is operation badar), we need to stop it, we should only train enough people for this and start increasing as business increase. It will not be a good to create a hype of it.
It is good that our government is taking initiatives in this sector and start planning but they need to go fast pace rather then doing it their normal pace, which generally makes them early starters but last one to end.
Hope things will change and people, specially the businessmen of our country give a serious thought to it, and for once they stop just thinking for their short term profit and think of long term profit to country and themselves.
Friday, February 04, 2005
Career Counseling
I have been working in this industry for almost 5 years, I have met many people and almost all of them don't actually know what they wana be. Where will they stand after say 2 years. They are not even sure are they moving in the right direction, first and the only preference is money they get. Yes, money is something we cant live without, but is that the only thing we should care about. This is because of the reason that a child is taught from childhood that he has to study to get better job, earn more money live a life, have kids and the cycle goes on and on.
Here I feel need of career counseling or guidance to youth, we the experienced people should go into institutions spent a day or two with the graduating class, see what their interests are and guide them accordingly. An initiative has been taken by Ponder Alliance in karachi, but there is a need to take this thing from universities to more elementary level when the student actually decides where he/she should go for professional studies.
I hope the day will come when there will be people thinking about community same as they think themselves, and understand the need to guide new generations in the right direction.
People are working but they are very few.
Here I feel need of career counseling or guidance to youth, we the experienced people should go into institutions spent a day or two with the graduating class, see what their interests are and guide them accordingly. An initiative has been taken by Ponder Alliance in karachi, but there is a need to take this thing from universities to more elementary level when the student actually decides where he/she should go for professional studies.
I hope the day will come when there will be people thinking about community same as they think themselves, and understand the need to guide new generations in the right direction.
People are working but they are very few.
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