# Indian Biological Data Centre **Entity class:** National life-science data repository and computing infrastructure **Aliases:** IBDC ## Definition The **Indian Biological Data Centre** is India’s national infrastructure for archiving, managing, and providing access to biological research data. Its computing layer includes the [[wiki/Indian Biological Data Centre Integrated Computing Environment|Integrated Computing Environment]], developed with [[wiki/C-DAC|C-DAC]] for bioinformatics, genomics, multiomics, molecular modeling, and other data-intensive life-science workloads. ## Relationships - **government route:** India’s Department of Biotechnology and Regional Centre for Biotechnology. - **computing partner:** [[wiki/C-DAC|Centre for Development of Advanced Computing]]. - **ICE system:** [[wiki/Indian Biological Data Centre Integrated Computing Environment|IBDC Integrated Computing Environment]]. - **data domains:** [[wiki/Genomics|Genomics]], sequence archives, phenome data, structural biology, and multiomics. - **disambiguation route:** [[wiki/ICE|ICE disambiguation]]. ## Sources / Provenance - [Indian Biological Data Centre](https://ibdc.dbtindia.gov.in/) - [Department of Biotechnology Annual Report 2024–25](https://dbtindia.gov.in/sites/default/files/DBT%20Annual%20Report%202024-25.pdf)