Career avenues of bioinformatics

The use of information technology in the field of molecular biology has grown steadily, opening avenues for career prospects in the field. Bioinformatics is an emerging interdisciplinary research area, which can be defined as the interface between biological and computational sciences. As a consequence of the large amount of data produced in the field of molecular biology, computers are used to gather, store, analyse and integrate biological and genetic information.
Some of the specific career areas that fall within the scope of bioinformatics include:
Sequence assembly; Database design and maintenance; Sequence analysis; Proteomics; Pharmacogenomics; Pharma-cology; Clinical pharmacologist; Informatics developer; Computational chemist; Bio-analytics; and Analytics.
A course in bioinformatics is suitable for those with a graduation or post-graduation in molecular biology, genetics, microbiology, chemistry, pharmacy, veterinary sciences, physics, mathematics, and also engineers, IT professionals, PhDs and medicos.
there are many good institutions in tamil naidu which offers b.tech in bioinformatics like SRM,sathyabama,Dr. MGR nd many more.
the demand of bioinformatic profrssionals in india is growing.many leading IT companies like TCS,Wipro,reliance,satyam are coming to this field.