India’s first National Repository for Life Science Data-‘Indian Biological Data Center’ (IBDC)

Syllabus: General Studies Paper 3

As per the BIOTECH-PRIDE guidelines of the Government of India, IBDC is mandated to archive all life science data generated from publicly-funded research in India.

Features

• IBDC has accumulated over 200 billion bases from 2, 08, 055 submissions from more than 50 research labs across India.
• IBDC dashboard provides customized data submission, access, data analysis services, and real-time SARS-CoV-2 variant monitoring across India.
• IBDC is mandated to archive all life science data generated from publicly-funded research in India.
• Supported by the Department of Biotechnology (DBT), it has been established at Regional Centre of Biotechnology (RCB), Faridabad with a data ‘Disaster Recovery’ site at National Informatics Centre (NIC), Bhubaneshwar.
• It has a data storage capacity of about 4 petabytes and houses the ‘Brahm’ High Performance Computing (HPC) facility. 
• The computational infrastructure at IBDC is also made available for researchers interested in performing computational-intensive analysis.