India can be a big provider of genomics big data analytics, says government official

India can emerge as a key provider of high-end analytics based on genomics big data, stated Vijay Raghavan, Secretary, Department of Biotechnology, Ministry of Science & Technology, Government of India, at an interactive session on biotechnology on day two of the ‘Indian Economic Convention’ organized by India Foundation and International Chamber of Commerce, whose India Chapter is an affiliate body of the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI), in association with Niti Aayog.

There is a big opportunity for India to both analyze and model genomics big data and to build mechanisms for using the analytics, said Mr Raghavan, and pointed out that India should also look to build a sizeable pool of people who are trained to handle computational genomics.

Deeper need for interaction stressed