# Indian Biological Data Centre Integrated Computing Environment **Entity class:** Cloud and high-performance computing environment **Aliases:** ICE at IBDC; Integrated Computing Environment ## Definition The **Integrated Computing Environment (ICE)** developed by India’s C-DAC for the Indian Biological Data Centre is a cloud-oriented computational facility for large-scale life-science data. Government reports describe preinstalled bioinformatics and big-data tools for genomics, molecular modeling, multiomics, and structural data, with the aim of broadening researcher access to IBDC compute. ## Relationships - **operators:** [[wiki/Indian Biological Data Centre|IBDC]], [[wiki/C-DAC|Centre for Development of Advanced Computing]], and India’s Department of Biotechnology. - **domains:** [[wiki/Genomics|Genomics]], bioinformatics, molecular modeling, high-performance computing, and multiomics. - **disambiguation route:** [[wiki/ICE|ICE disambiguation]]. ## Sources / Provenance - [India Department of Biotechnology Annual Report 2023–24](https://www.dbtindia.gov.in/sites/default/files/DBT%20AR%202023-24%20%28English%29.pdf) - [India Department of Biotechnology Annual Report 2024–25](https://dbtindia.gov.in/sites/default/files/DBT%20Annual%20Report%202024-25.pdf)