CTC Laboratory Systems, a subsidiary of Itochu Techno Solutions, announced May 20 that it signed an alliance agreement with U.S. software company Cognizant Technology Solutions to provide a genome database to Japanese pharmaceutical companies. Cognizant has over 4,500 medical staff amongst its 50,000 employees in its outsourcing branch in India, and provides the world's major pharmaceutical companies with protein and genome information analysis systems. CTC hopes to tap Cognizant's customer base and service system and expand its market in Japan. (Click here for more - Japanese language
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