“Event though I am not a biotechnologist I would like to say that and I believe that the 21st century is the century of biotechnology or in a large perspective a century of life sciences. I would like to recommend the students to read the very famous futuristic work of Jermy Rifkin titled “The Biotech Century” and if you are a computer scientist then I would like to quote Donald Knuth who said that computer scientists have 500 years of work to do in biology.”

“Since we try to work at the edge of what is possible, our research can change rapidly in unexpected ways. At the moment, I see Next-Generation sequencing as being a source of vast new data sets, a major leap from microarray technology in both the information content and the complexity of analysis.”