BioInformatics

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.