India Gets Its First Repository For Life Science Data

The 'Indian Biological Data Centre' is established at Regional Centre of Biotechnology in Faridabad.

India's first national repository for life science data, generated from publicly-funded research in the country, was unveiled in Faridabad on Thursday by Science and Technology Minister Jitendra Singh.

The 'Indian Biological Data Centre' (IBDC), established at the Regional Centre of Biotechnology in Faridabad, has data storage capacity of four petabytes and is also home to the 'Brahm' High Performance Computing facility.

A data disaster recovery site has been set up at the National Informatics Centre, Bhubaneshwar, Mr Singh said.

Prof Sudhanshu Vrati, Executive Director of IBDC, said the life sciences data was till now stored in data repositories in Europe and the US, and a need was felt to house the data within the country.