Here is the few flashback of Bio informatics potential information and the Technologies Gap. Please have a look on it and let me know if you need any more information. If you dig little more, you can easily judge the the potential of playing the Microsoft .Net Game and it's related fields.

Few nuggets..!
"..One corporate representative estimated that approximately 60 percent of his time as a bio informatics group leader was spent searching for individuals with the right mix of skills in the mid-1990s. The common reason for observing skills mismatch was difficulty in finding candidates with an adequate understanding of biology and computational skills who also had prior industry experience..."
More ..
http://www.csuchico.edu/csuperb/ReportBioinfSloan_June04.pdf

"According to the report's authors, Frost & Sullivan, the forecast predicts that the total European bio informatics market is set to expand from nearly $310 million (€252.8 million) in 2004 to $720 million by 2011.."

http://www.drugresearcher.com/news/ng.asp?id=62083-doubletwist-compugen-bioinformatics

"RNCOS analysts predict the product lines, software tools and other biometric applications to project an annual market growth of 15.8% or US $3 billion by 2010 higher by 14.5% in 2003. With this the bioinformatics companies could consolidate data, make analysis & useful management and disseminate tools to help drug companies to curtail cost and time."

http://www.marketresearch.com/product/display.asp?productid=1186875&xs=r&SID=27874067-351974148-357818391&curr=USD&kw=&view=abs

"With current revenues at around $ 840 million, Scope forecasts the bioinformatics market to become more dominant in the future and increase to around $1.82 billion by 2007. The growth rate is expected to stabilize at 17 percent per annum until 2007 as the sequencing of the human genome nears completion in 2003. Over the past years, bioinformatics has gained acceptance among number of markets especially in pharmaceutical, biotechnology, industrial biotechnology and agricultural biotechnology (agbiotech)."

http://www.marketresearch.com/product/display.asp?productid=819820&xs=r

Applicability of the .NET Platform to Bioinformatics Research
http://au.sys-con.com/read/143264.htm

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Suresh Behera