Biotech-PRIDE: Guidelines To Provide Framework For Sharing Of Biological Data

Hello fellows! Hope you all are doing good. Today, in this blog we will discuss in detail the Biotech- PRIDE. 

As you all might have heard, on July 30, 2021, Union Minister Jitendra Singh announced the “Biotech-PRIDE (Promotion of Research and Innovation through Data Exchange) Guidelines”. These guidelines are developed by the Ministry of Science and Technology, Department of Biotechnology (DBT). 

Biotech PRIDE Guidelines : 

• These guidelines aim at providing a well-defined framework and guiding principle to facilitate and enable sharing and exchange of biological knowledge, information and data.
• They will be implemented through the Indian Biological Data Centre (IBDC) at the Regional Centre for Biotechnology supported by the Department of Biotechnology.
•  These guidelines will enable the exchange of information to promote research and innovation in different research groups across the country.

Bio-Grid : 

Bio-Grid will be a National Repository for biological knowledge, information and data. Other existing datasets/ data centres will be bridged to IBDC which will be called Bio-Grid. It will be responsible for allowing their exchange, establishing security measures, standards and quality of data sets, and establishing detailed modes of access to data. 

Need of such Guidelines & advantages : 

• The Government invests a large number of public funds for biosciences to gain deep insights into intricate biological mechanisms and other processes and for translation
• These guidelines will help avoid duplication and waste of research resources.
• The PRIDE guidelines will help coordinate, collaborate, and foster data sharing for research and analysis in the country and will promote scientific work and advance progress based on previous work.
• Government agencies fund research to generate large amounts of biological data in various fields of biological sciences because of the Advances in DNA sequencing and other high-throughput technologies, as well as the dramatic drop in the cost of DNA sequencing.
• The launch of Biotech-PRIDE is the first of its kind in DBT; India ranks fourth among the top 20 countries which are contributing to biological databases.

So, with this, we came to an end of this detailed discussion on the topic Biotech- PRIDE. For more such blogs, stay tuned.

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