Union Minister Dr Jitendra Singh dedicating IBDC to the nation in Faridabad today.
Faridabad: India’s first national repository for life science data-‘Indian Biological Data Center’ (IBDC) was dedicated to the nation by Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) Ministry of Science and Technology, Dr Jitendra Singh, here today.
Dr Singh said, as per the BIOTECH-PRIDE guidelines of the Government of India, IBDC is mandated to archive all life science data generated from publicly-funded research in India. It has been established at the Regional Centre of Biotechnology (RCB), Faridabad with the support of the Department of Biotechnology (DBT), and with a data ‘Disaster Recovery’ site at the National Informatics Centre (NIC), Bhubaneshwar.
The IBDC 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.
The Minister informed that IBDC has started nucleotide data submission services via two data portals viz. the ‘Indian Nucleotide Data Archive (INDA)’ and ‘Indian Nucleotide Data Archive – Controlled Access (INDA-CA)’ and has accumulated over 200 billion bases from 2,08,055 submissions from more than 50 research labs across India.
It also hosts an online ‘Dashboard’ for the genomic surveillance data generated by the INSACOG labs. The dashboard provides customized data submission, access, data analysis services, and real-time SARS-CoV-2 variant monitoring across India. Data submission and access portals for other data types are under development and would be launched shortly.
Fundamentally, IBDC is committed to the spirit of data sharing as per FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable) principles. IBDC is being developed in a modular fashion wherein different sections would typically deal with particular type/s of life science data.
The computational infrastructure at IBDC is also made available for researchers interested in performing computational intensive analysis.
– global bihari bureau
