CDC Linux, CSIR sign pact - Fsf-friends

3 Jul 2002


      Does anyone have more information on this report, from the BusinessLine of
April 17, 2002:
CDC LINUX, CSIR SIGN PACT
Bangalore: The Bangalore-based CDC Linux has been signed on by the Council
of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) to develop portable software
for bio-informatics on the GNU/Linux platform and the establishment of
high performance supercomputing infrastrucutre for research organisations
in bio-informatics, according to the company.
The company will be an industry partner, under the CSIR's New Millennium
Indian Technology Leadership Initiative. As part of the project, CDC-Linux
will be collaborating with the Centre for Biochemical Technology on the
development of software applications in the area of comparative genomics
and proteomics.
The products developed by CBT and fine-tuned by CDC Linux include the
Genedecoder, a gene prediction tool, the Proteome Calculator, a
comparative protein sequence analyser, and the See-Path, an intelligent
protein classifer, according to CDC Linux. These products would be
available for the international market, according to a press release. ENDS