pune the centre for development of advanced computing cdac will launch param bio blaze a supercomputing facility to address the challenges in bioinformatics on tuesday at a threeday symposium when biological data is processed using computer science statistics mathematics and engineering it constitutes bioinformatics cdacs new facility will have a capacity of 10 teraflop and will be able to analyse human cells and its functions technological advancements are bringing new dimensions to the understanding of molecular basis of living organisms there is immense data generated due to computing but storage and analysis of this data is becoming a challenge hemant darbari executive director of cdac said at a news conference on monday param bio blaze will help have a larger storage space and better computing facility for the bioinformatics sector the facility will help capture the movement of molecules and also interaction between two molecules and the effects rajendra joshi associate director bioinformatics group of cdac said we have been able to make important tieups with foreign universities and institutes into bioinformatics research some collaborations with national institutes have also been possible the bioinformatics centre at cdac completed 10 years this month established in 2004 the centre has been widely used by numerous researchers across the globe and has an ultimate aim of making personalised drugs depending on the composition of a human body the symposium titled accelerating biology computing life will be inaugurated on tuesday by ramakrishna ramaswamy vicechancellor central university of hyderabad at the yashadaapplications of param bioblaze collaboration with national centre for cell science for research on malaria and understanding how the disease spreads collaborative work with tata memorial hospital on breast cancer and find out the difference between normal tissues and tissues from breast cancer patients designing anticancer molecules a collaborative research with the university of pune