shodhaka life sciences

In many cases, critical data mining, data analysis and interpretations of scientific work suffers from a casual approach. Shodhaka began with a vision to effectively address mainly two such imperfections in data mining and analysis: a) passive approach that is disconnected from the original objectives of the scientists; b) lack of objective selection and utilization of biological databases and software. Established in 2009, the young team of scientists at Shodhaka began with the herculean task of compiling, cataloguing and scientifically comparing the existing databases and software. The public web-portal startbioinfo.com - launched in 2010, and some of our publications illustrate our efforts in this direction. We are perhaps the only organization (at least a commercial one) that has spent more than 8 years in systematically comparing several types of such bioinformatic resources. This work has helped us to add value to services to the research projects of our client-scientists. Th...