BOS is the first of its kind among existing biological software and is unique because of its user-friendly object-oriented Biological Programming Environment (O2-BPE). With this software, the bio-researcher will be equipped with an extensive and user-friendly software environment enabling timely and efficient implementation of research projects. The licence has been extended to cover all the research labs at the School of Life Sciences, University of Hyderabad, facilitating in building long-term research collaboration with HGPL delivering better and faster computational solutions, HGPL chief executive officer Mohan RK Nimmagadda said.
Meanwhile, BOS has been extensively validated for more than 1,500 man-hours on its modules and applications using in-house and contract research projects from Europe and India. Projects include solving biological data redundancy problems in public databases, creation of unique databases of repeat sequences, restriction enzymes and oncologically significant novel genes. With BOS, one can expect, on an average, about 60-75% savings on researcher time and similar equivalents on the research costs, Mr Nimmagadda added.
