Bioinformatics: Exploiting Biological Data For Patenting In India

In an era of growing dependence on digital data, the availability of large biological data opens a new arena of innovative activity through Bioinformatics and computational biology. The term 'bioinformatics' found references in the writings of Paulien Hogeweg and Ben Hesper in 1970, where they refer to the study of information processes in biotic systems. It is not the study of raw biological data contained in DNA, RNA, and protein sequences, but it analyses and explores the possibilities of its applications to produce meaningful information.

For commercial purposes, the bioinformatics product market can be divided into four segments: databases, software, hardware, and custom consulting. When we talk about bioinformatic tools, we find that bioinformatics hardware is not different from traditional computer hardware as it comprises servers, desktop computers, and other storage devices, but with a major difference that it is typically designed with faster processing