{"id":34828,"date":"2022-11-14T01:20:34","date_gmt":"2022-11-13T19:50:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=34828"},"modified":"2025-04-20T17:39:33","modified_gmt":"2025-04-20T12:09:33","slug":"indian-biological-data-bank-biobank-to-create-indian-data-for-indian-solutions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/indian-biological-data-bank-biobank-to-create-indian-data-for-indian-solutions\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian Biological Data Bank: Biobank to Create Indian Data for Indian Solutions"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong>\u00a0What\u2019s in today\u2019s article:<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>About IBDC<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>News Summary<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Why in news?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>The Union Ministry of Science and Technology recently dedicated to the nation\u00a0<strong>India&#8217;s first digitised repository\u00a0<\/strong>for life science data &#8211; Indian Biological Data Center (IBDC), at the Regional Centre of Biotechnology (RCB), Faridabad, Haryana.<\/li>\n<li>This will enable researchers to store biological data from publicly funded research, reducing their dependency on American and European data banks.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><strong>The Indian Biological Data Centre (IBDC):<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>About IBDC:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>According to the Government of India&#8217;s\u00a0BIOTECH-PRIDE guidelines, IBDC is mandated to archive all life science data (in digitised form) generated from publicly funded research in India.\n<ul>\n<li>In India there is no specific guidelines for storage access and sharing of Biological data.<\/li>\n<li>The Biotech PRIDE Guidelines will facilitate this and\u00a0enable exchange of information to promote research and innovation in different research groups across the country.<\/li>\n<li>These guidelines will be implemented through the Indian Biological Data Centre (IBDC) at Regional Centre for Biotechnology supported by the Department of Biotechnology.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>The data centre, which is India\u2019s first national repository for life science data, is supported by the Department of Biotechnology (DBT) in collaboration with the\u00a0National Informatics Centre\u00a0(NIC), India.<\/li>\n<li>The digitised data will be stored on a four-petabyte (1 petabyte = 10,00,000 gigabytes (gb)) supercomputer called\u00a0<strong>\u2018Brahm\u2019<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>The biobank also has a backup data \u2018Disaster Recovery\u2019 site at National Informatics Centre (NIC)-Bhubaneswar.<\/li>\n<li>The database offers open access (can be used by other researchers from across the country) and controlled access (data will not be openly shared for a number of years) mechanisms for data submission to researchers.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Need:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Currently, most Indian researchers rely on the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) and the National Center for Biotechnology Information to store biological data.<\/li>\n<li>Other smaller datasets are available at some institutes, but they are not available to all<strong>.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Objectives:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Provide an IT platform for permanent archiving of biological data in India.<\/li>\n<li>Development of SOPs for storing and sharing the data as per\u00a0FAIR (findability, accessibility, interoperability and reusability) principles.<\/li>\n<li>Perform quality control, data backup and management of data life cycle.<\/li>\n<li>Development of web-based tools, organisation of training programs on \u2018Big\u2019 data analysis and benefits of data sharing.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Significance:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Because of the heterogeneity of life scientific data, IBDC is being built in a decentralised manner, with various portions dealing with specific types of data.<\/li>\n<li>It would also provide infrastructure and expertise for biological data analysis, aiding in knowledge discovery of\u00a0numerous genetic diseases, vaccines and medicines<strong>.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>As a result, it will always strive to meet the needs of not just the Indian, but also the global scientific community.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><strong>News Summary:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The biobank now contains data including 200 human genomes sequenced as part of the &#8216;1,000 Genome Project,&#8217; an international endeavour to map genetic variations in people.<\/li>\n<li>In addition, the database comprises the majority of the 2.6 lakh\u00a0<strong>Sars-Cov-2 genomes\u00a0<\/strong>sequenced by the Indian Sars-Cov-2 Genomic Consortium (INSACOG).<\/li>\n<li>The database will also house the 25,000 mycobacterium TB sequences, helping in understanding the spread of multi-drug and extremely drug resistant TB in the country and aiding in the search for targets for new medicines and vaccines.<\/li>\n<li>Currently, the database contains the genomic sequences of crops such as rice, onion, tomatoes, and mustard, among others.<\/li>\n<li>The presence of genomes from humans, animals and bacteria in the same database would also aid researchers in the study of zoonotic diseases (spread from animals to humans).<\/li>\n<li>It is probable that the database will later be expanded to store protein sequences (amino acids) as well as imaging data such as ultrasound and MRI images.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IBDC dashboard provides customized data submission,real-time SARS-CoV-2 variant monitoring across India.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":34829,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-34828","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-mains-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34828\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}