Bangalore, Nov 25, 2009: Qlucore, a world leader in the development of bioinformatics software, has announced an agreement with JH BIO, a specialist distribution company that caters to major pharmaceutical companies, research institutes, and universities in India. Qlucore has already experienced a strong interest from the Indian market, with many companies downloading trial versions of its data analysis software.
Qlucore's latest software, called Qlucore Omics Explorer, has been developed for the life science, agricultural and biotech industry. With its highly intuitive user interface, Qlucore Omics Explorer allows researchers to shorten analysis time and add more creativity to research, thanks to the product's instant response and statistical analysis capabilities.
"India is an important and fast-growing market for us, as it has many National Research labs that cover a number of key areas, including world-leading research into plant biology," says Carl-Johan Ivarsson, President, Qlucore. "We foresee a long and fruitful co-operation with JH BIO, as the company is well-placed to provide us with a local presence in India, as well as comprehensive distribution across the entire country."
JH Bio acts as both exclusive agents and distributors in India, and is well known for bringing the latest technological products from all over the globe to India's scientific community. Founded in 1992, the company supplies a wide range of laboratory instruments and equipment to the life science, biotechnology, environmental, pharmaceutical, molecular diagnostics, and analytical sectors.
"Qlucore software has a very good reputation internationally and will be an important part of our offering to scientists in India," says Hari Kumar, Managing Director, JH BIO. "Since India conducts extensive world-class research in the fields of agriculture, pharmaceuticals and medicine, this software can be used by the scientific community to interpret the vast amount of data that is generated by their research, and to uncover new discoveries as a result."
The Biotechnology sector is currently one of the fastest growing markets in India. The market is expected to grow from $2.6 billion in 2008 to USD 5.0 billion by 2010. With nearly 300 large and medium-sized companies, the Biotech sector has been growing at an average of 35–40% over the last three years.
As the Indian government has identified biotechnology as a key sector, many projects under the Public Private Partnership (PPP) model are expected to be taken up in the near future. Proteomics and genomics are some of the key research areas in the biotechnology sector. Qlucore's software will enable researchers in these areas to explore different hypothesis and alternative scenarios both quickly and easily, as Qlucore Omics Explorer provides users with immediate results of their data analysis. The software will therefore be invaluable for unveiling important new discoveries, as it will allow the actual researchers – the people with the most biological insight – to study the data and to look for patterns and structures, without needing to be a statistics or computer expert.
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