Indian Biological Data Center (IBDC)
November 21 , 2022
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- 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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