November 2024

It 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.

Launched on 9th november 2024

July 2025

Gujarat starts India's first Tribal genome project ¹

• Genome sequencing initiative focused exclusively on tribal communities.
• Aims to identify genetic health risks and enable precision health care for tribal populations
• includes 2,000 individuals from 17 districts in the state.
• Project titled, "Creation of Reference Genome Database for Tribal population in Gujarat"

References

Footnotes

1. The Hindu 17.07.2025 ↩