Indian Biological Data Centre
Recently, the ‘Indian Biological Data Centre’ (IBDC) was dedicated to the nation. It has been established at the Regional Centre for Biotechnology (RCB), Faridabad.
Key Points
- About: IBDC is the first national repository for life science data in India. The data bank is supported by the Department of Biotechnology (DBT).
- Mandate: 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.
- Storage: 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 ....
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