Bioinformatics Outsourcing for Life Sciences India Opportunity

Released on: April 28, 2008, 12:15 am

Press Release Author: valuenotes

Industry: Biotech

Press Release Summary: The research report "Bioinformatics Outsourcing for Life
Sciences: India Opportunity" (http://www.bharatbook.com/detail.asp?id=70034)
examines the bioinformatics services outsourcing market in India for the life
sciences space.


Press Release Body: Research companies around the world now feel the need for
enormous computing and data management competencies to sequence and categorize data
generated by drug-discovery labs. To facilitate the storage, management, retrieval,
and analysis of this large-scale data, the application of IT to the life sciences
sector - bioinformatics, assumes increasingly higher significance. The use of
bioinformatics tools lowers costs, improves efficiency and reduces
development-to-launch timelines. The drive to further reduce R&D costs by
off-shoring to low cost destinations is fuelling the outsourcing of bioinformatics
services from India. This report, based on a study conducted examines the
bioinformatics services outsourcing market in India for the life sciences space.

According to Arun Jethmalani, CEO, \"Outsourcing to India, compared to other
developed countries, offers about 30-40% costs savings in overall drug discovery
research, and close to 60% cost savings when outsourcing core bioinformatics
services. This is owing to the lower wage costs for skilled manpower, and lower
infrastructure costs.\"

It estimates that India\'s bioinformatics services outsourcing revenues are about USD
32 million, and are expected to grow at a CAGR of 25% touching USD 62 million by
2010. India has emerged as an attractive destination for outsourcing bioinformatics
services owing to availability of low cost English-speaking manpower, lower capital
and operational costs, and its established success as an IT and pharma outsourcing
hub. \"Vendors, that lack international visibility for their products, are rapidly
building service capabilities to capitalize on the India advantage. Pure play
companies offer specialized services, IT companies offer services across the life
sciences vertical while domestic life sciences companies are offering a complete
research solution that includes bioinformatics services\", says Dr Raj Rajagopal, CCO
KnowGenix.

The report provides an overview of the buyer scenario and an in-depth analysis of
the Indian vendor space along with profiles of major industry players. The report is
designed to help:

Research companies looking to outsource/off-shore bioinformatics services
Global biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies to gain understanding of the
Indian bioinformatics vendor space
Outsourcing consultants to evaluate and compare offerings of Indian bioinformatics
vendors
Potential vendors to assess opportunities in India
Bioinformatics vendors to assess the competitive environment in India
Venture capital companies looking for investment opportunities
Researchers looking for detailed information on Bioinformatics services off-shoring
to India

This study, is based on extensive interviews with key bioinformatics vendors in
India, supplemented with knowledge from secondary sources

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