DBT develops guidelines to promote research & innovation

The Department of Biotechnology (DBT), Government of India, has developed guidelines for the promotion of research and innovation through data exchange, referred to as Biotech-PRIDE. These guidelines will be implemented through the Indian Biological Data Centre (IBDC) at Regional Centre for Biotechnology (RCB), supported by DBT. Other existing datasets/ data centres will be bridged to this IBDC which will be called Bio-Grid. The Biotech-PRIDE guidelines will enable the exchange of information to promote research and innovation in different research groups across the country. The guidelines aim at providing a well-defined framework and guiding principle to facilitate and enable sharing and exchange of biological knowledge, information and data and is specifically applicable to high-throughput, high-volume data generated by research groups across the country. These guidelines do not deal with a generation of biological data per se but are an enabling mechanism to share and exchange information and knowledge generated as per the existing laws, rules, regulations and guidelines of the country.