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The Indian Biological Data Centre (IBDC), India's first national repository for life science data, is set up at:
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Answer: Option D — Faridabad, Haryana
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The Indian Biological Data Centre (IBDC) is set up at the Regional Centre for Biotechnology (RCB), in Faridabad, Haryana.
About the IBDC:
- It is India's first national repository (storage centre) for life science data.
- It is supported by the Department of Biotechnology (DBT), Ministry of Science and Technology.
- It was dedicated to the nation in 2022.
- It stores biological data generated by publicly funded research in India, such as DNA and protein sequences, genome data, and other biological information.
- It is meant to keep India's important biological data safely within the country, and to make it available to Indian researchers.
- Under the "Biotech-PRIDE" (Promotion of Research and Innovation through Data Exchange) Guidelines, 2021, researchers using public funds are required to deposit their data in the IBDC.
- It has a data disaster recovery site at the National Informatics Centre (NIC) in Bhubaneswar.
- It uses a supercomputer called "Brahm" to analyse large amounts of data.
It hosts data from projects such as the "Genome India" project, which aimed to sequence the genomes of 10,000 Indians. The project completed sequencing of 10,000 genomes in 2024, and its data were released in 2025.
It also stored SARS-CoV-2 genome data from the INSACOG network during the COVID-19 pandemic.
About the Regional Centre for Biotechnology:
- It was set up by the Department of Biotechnology in collaboration with UNESCO.
- It is an Institution of National Importance, located in the "NCR Biotech Science Cluster" in Faridabad.
- The cluster also includes the Translational Health Science and Technology Institute (THSTI).
Other important biotechnology institutions of India:
- Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB): Hyderabad.
- National Institute of Immunology (NII): New Delhi.
- Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics (CDFD): Hyderabad.
- National Centre for Cell Science (NCCS): Pune.
- Institute of Bioinformatics and Applied Biotechnology: Bengaluru.
- The Department of Biotechnology was set up in 1986.
Why not the other options?
- ✗Hyderabad has the CCMB and CDFD.
- ✗Pune has the National Centre for Cell Science.
- ✗Bengaluru has the National Centre for Biological Sciences.
Quick tip
Remember: Indian Biological Data Centre = Regional Centre for Biotechnology, Faridabad, Haryana (DBT; dedicated 2022; backup at NIC Bhubaneswar; supercomputer "Brahm"; Genome India data); CCMB = Hyderabad.
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