One Day One Genome Initiative:
The Department of Biotechnology (DBT) and Biotechnology Research and Innovation Council (BRIC) introduced the ‘One Day One Genome’ initiative to showcase the enormous microbial potential of India.
- One Day One Genome Initiative will highlight the unique bacterial species found in our country and emphasize their critical roles in environment, agriculture and human health.
- This initiative is coordinated by Biotechnology Research and Innovation Council-National Institute of Biomedical Genomics (BRIC-NIBMG) an institute of the Department of Biotechnology.
- This initiative aims to release a fully annotated bacteriological genome isolated in the country freely available to the public.
- This will be complemented with a detailed graphical summary, infographics and genome assembly/annotation details.
- These documents will thus give an idea about the scientific and industrial use of these microbes.
- Consequently, microbial genomics data will become more accessible to the general public, scientific researchers and thereby stimulate discussions; innovations directly benefit the entire community and ecosystem.
