Recently, the Ministry of Science and Technology has approved a gene-mapping project called the Genome India Project (GIP).
The Genome India Project is a collaboration of 20 institutions that will enable new efficiencies in medicine, agriculture and the life sciences.
Its aim is to ultimately build a grid of the Indian “reference genome”, to fully understand the type and nature of diseases and traits that comprise the diverse Indian population.
Genome
A genome is all the genetic matter in an organism.
It is defined as an organism’s complete set of DNA, including all of its genes.
Each genome contains all of the information needed to build and maintain that organism.