<span style="color: #222222;">Minister of State in the Prime Minister's office, Dr Jitendra Singh today launched India's first national repository for life science data, the Indian Biological Data Center' (IBDC) at Faridabad, Haryana.<br />''</span><br />''Speaking on the occasion, Dr. Jitendra 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.<br />''Supported by the Department of Biotechnology (DBT), it has been established at Regional Centre of Biotechnology (RCB), Faridabad with a data disaster recovery site at National Informatics Centre (NIC), Bhubaneshwar.<br />''<br />''According to the Ministry of Science and Technology, it has a data storage capacity of about 4 petabytes and houses the 'Brahm' High-Performance Computing (HPC) facility.<br />'' <br />''<span style="color: #222222;">Dr Jitendra Singh 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' has accumulated over 200 billion bases from 2,08,055 submissions from more than 50 research labs across India.</span><br />