Centre Unveils India’s First National Repository for Life Science Data: India’s first national repository for life science data, generated from publicly-funded research in the country, was unveiled here on Thursday by Science and Technology Minister Jitendra Singh. The National Repository for Life Science data was generated from publicly-funded research in India.
The ‘Indian Biological Data Centre’ (IBDC), established at the Regional Centre of Biotechnology here, has data storage capacity of four petabytes and is also home to the ‘Brahm’ High Performance Computing facility.
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Centre Unveils India’s First National Repository for Life Science Data- Key Points
- Before the National Repository for Life Science data was unveiled the sciences data was stored in data repositories in Europe and the US till now.
- The computational infrastructure at IBDC has also been made available for researchers who are interested in performing computational-intensive analysis.
- IBDC has also started nucleotide data submission services via two data portals viz.
- The Center also provided an online “Dashboard” for the INSACOG labs’ genomic surveillance data.
- These INSACOG labs provide customized data submission, access, data analysis services, and real-time SARS-CoV-2 variant monitoring across the country.
- Data submission and access to the portal for other data types are under development and would be launched.
- IBDC is committed to the spirit of data sharing as per FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable) principles.
