TNPSC Thervupettagam

Indian Biological Data Center (IBDC)

November 21 , 2022 738 days 638 0
  • The Union Minister of state for Science and Technology Jitendra Singh recently dedicated Indian Biological Data Center (IBDC) to the nation.
  • It is India’s first national repository for life science data.
  • It will store all life science data generated from publicly funded research in the country.
  • It operates with the assistance from the Department of Biotechnology (DBT).
  • It was established at the Regional Centre of Biotechnology (RCB) in Faridabad, Haryana.
  • It has a data “disaster recovery” site in National Informatics Centre (NIC) in Bhubaneshwar.
  • It has a data storage capacity of around 4 petabytes.
  • It hosts the ‘Brahm’ High Performance Computing (HPC) facility.

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