TCS Innovation Labs - Hyderabad - Research  

Life Sciences

The lab focuses on R&D in the areas of genome analysis, comparative genomics, ADME prediction, genotyping and the use of natural language processing for information extraction from unstructured text.  The lab also develops solutions for data integration and analysis in the biological and chemical sciences.  These solutions are of vital importance to the pharmaceutical, biotechnology and agri-biotechnology industries. 

• The 4 M Algorithm
• Genome Annotation of The Malaria Parasite (Plasmodium falciparum)
• Identification of Compositionally Distinct Regions in Genomes
• Identification of Proteins Involved in the Cell Cycle of Entamoeba histolytica
• Graph Databases for Biology
• In silico ADME Modelling
• Viroseq v2.7 software for Celera: This software represents the first TCS developed product to secure FDA 510K approval.  This was also a pioneering project within TCS, being the first to implement an Agile methodology in an onsite-offshore scenario.
• EST Assembly and SNP detection pipeline for ICRISAT
• Parallel implementations of several algorithms for ICRISAT

 e-Security

• Automated Copyright Notice System - Anti-piracy tools for the movie industry: The ACNS response system is designed to be integrated into an ISP's backend infrastructure to provide, simple, effective, responses to ACNS notices from external entities.
• Secure client-server communication based on ECC: ECC guarantees the same level of security as traditional asymmetric cryptographic methods such as RSA while making less of a demand on resources; Hyperelliptic Curve Cryptography: They provide a rich source of curves. Considering only elliptic curves is restrictive. The new idea of Weil descent requires more knowledge about hyperelliptic curves.
• Enterprise Digital Rights Management 
• Design Of A New Hash Algorithm 
• ePassport (Smart Card) 

  Open Source

• Enabling Indian Language usage on computers though the Swecha project.  It is also a resource centre of Linux and Open Source software inside TCS.
• Community interaction and contributions to Free and Open Source software. 
    (Most work done by the CoE becomes available as Free Software and is eventually available through major linux distributions and the internet.)