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11/11/22 14:15 PM IST

India’s first national repository for life science data-‘Indian Biological Data Center’ (IBDC)

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  • Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) Ministry of Science and Technology;Dr Jitendra Singh dedicated to the nation India’s first national repository for life science data-‘Indian Biological Data Center’ (IBDC) at Faridabad, Haryana.
About IBDC
  • 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.
  • IBDC is being developed in a modular fashion wherein different sections would typically deal with particular type/s of life science data.

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