Bioinformatics Field Career Prospects

I am looking for information about job scopes after passing Msc Bioinformatics course ?

[Arun Vats]

Master of Science in Bioinformatics is a post graduate Bioinformatics course.. Here I am giving you information about job scopes after passing Msc Bioinformatics course ..

M.Sc. Bioinformatics Job Types
Bioinformatics Trainer
Bio / Pharmacy Informatics-Associate
Techno Commercial Executive / Technical Executive
Research Associate
Associate Director-Clinical Data Management
Team Lead-Pharmacovigilance
Bioinformatics 'C' Programmer
Bio-Statistician
Assistant Professor
System Analyst
Technical Support
Database Designer / Administrator
Applications Analyst
Bioinformatics Java Developer
Bioinformatics Computing Consultant
Bioinformatics Specialist
Programmer
Systems Engineer
Marketing Department
Bioinformatics Research Scientist
Bioinformatics Research Analyst

Scientists
Bio-analytics
Informatics developer
Researcher
Software developer
Marketing Executive

Companies for jobs :
GVK Biosciences
Dr Reddy’s Laboratories
Biscon
Strand Life Sciences
Celera Genomics
Ranbaxy
AstraZeneca Research Centre
Torrent Pharmaceuticals
Avestha Gengraine Technologies Private Limited
CuraGen
Institute of Mathematical Sciences
Indian Institute of Spices Research

You can apply in following companies:
Jubilant Biosys
Wipro
Ocimumbio
Reliance
Satyam
Tata Consultancy Services
Accelrys, Inc.
IBM Life Sciences
BioMed Informatics
Silicon Genetics and Tessella

I am thinking about to do Bioinformatics. Would you like to describe me Bioinformatics areas in terms of Career Prospects?

[Rajkumar Agarwal]

Bioinformatics is stream of the science that combines the biology, computer science and the information technology. You can also say Bioinformatics merges the bio sciences and the computational sciences.

Bioinformatics Career Prospects:

After Bioinformatics course you can find career in medical area like biotechnology, pharmaceutical and biomedical sciences, in research institutions, hospital and industry etc.

Following are the tasks you will need to do in your future career ahead

Drug design utilizing 3D structure modeling and computational chemistry ( cheminformatics ),
Comparing genetic data between and within species ( genomics ).
Drug targets ( pharmacogenomics ),
Characterization of proteins and their interactions ( proteomics ),
Prediction of the function of genes and proteins based on sequence and structural data etc.

Following are the job titles you will offer

Bioinformatician,
Biomedical computer scientist
Geneticist,
Computational biologist,
Biostatistician etc.

Following are the top Bioinformatics companies

Abbott,
accelrys
Adolor,
Agilent,
AstraZeneca,
AMGEN,
Ardais,
AVAKI,
Aventies,
Base4,
Bayer,
BioDiscovery,
Biosentients,
Boehringer Ingelheim,
CIPHERGEN,
Computercraft,
CuraGen,
Dupont Merck,
Exelixis,
GENAISSANCE,
GeneData,
GenenCor,
Genentech,
GenSet,
genzyme,
Geospiza,
immunex,
Incyte,
Ils,
Incellico,
LEXICON,
Lilly,
MERCK,
Monsanto,
neomorphic,
Novartis,
Novo A/S,
Ocimum,
Paracel,
Partek,
pfizer,
Roche,
Schering-Plough,
Strand Genomics,
Synomics,
3rd Millennium,
Virtual Genetics,
Wyeth,
Schrodinger.