Molecular Connections Private Ltd, a leading Indian life sciences informatics company, has won the Excellence Award. Its CEO, Jignesh Bhate received the Udyog Rattan Award too. Both the awards were instituted by the Institute of Economic Studies annually.

The company and its CEO bagged the awards for the pioneering efforts in providing biological and manually annotated databases to international companies. The awards were given away at the conference on Economic Development held at New Delhi early this month.

As a dedicated life sciences bioinformatics provider focusing on Insilco research efforts, the products and services of Molecular Connections have been indispensable in critical areas of research for pharma and biotech companies. The company is also supported by its high talent workforce, which are driving these initiatives, stated Jignesh Bhate, who received the award at New Delhi early this month.

Earlier the company bagged the Deloitte Technology Fast 500 APEC Winners, CNBC-ICICI Emerging India Awards' Small Enterprises of the Year.

The Bangalore-based seven year-old company provides high quality, cost effective curation, literature informatics solutions and annotation services and products. Its customers span pharmaceutical, biotechnology, drug discovery, genomics, proteomics, medical technology, equipment companies and academic institutions worldwide. In addition, the company also has powerful tool development, database integration, effective data visualization capabilities, specific expertise in building knowledge bases for rapidly growing needs in, ADME Tox, clinical, drugs, chemistry and patent industries.