Biotechnology
The sector has been growing between 35 - 40 percent per annum for the last three years. The sector has emerged as a dominant one providing employment to thousands of skilled and qualified people. There are a number of job opportunities for graduates and postgraduates in biotechnology today. Job prospects are available in:
- Drug and pharmaceutical research
- Public funded laboratories
- Chemicals
- Environment control
- Waste management
- Energy
- Agriculture
- Food processing
- Bio-process industries
Bioinformatics
The global bioinformatics market is expected to grow at a CAGR of 16 percent over 2007-2010, which will catalyse the Indian bioinformatics outsourcing market to grow at 25 percent per annum during 2007-2010. Around 90 percent revenues of the Indian bioinformatics market is derived from outsourcing activities. Some of the specific career areas that fall within the scope of bioinformatics include:
- Sequence assembly
- Database design and maintenance
- Sequence analysis
- Proteomics (the study of protein, particularly their structure, functions)
- Pharmacogenomics
- Pharmacology
- Clinical pharmacologist
- Informatics developer
- Computational chemist
- Bioanalytics and analytics etc.