CSIR & Genome Database
1. The Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) has submitted many genome sequences of the novel coronavirus to a global genome database
2. This will help in better understanding the virus and developing a vaccine.
3. The CSIR is currently sequencing the genomes of the novel coronavirus. Other CSIR institutes are also expected to join the process.
About Genome Database
1. The Genome Database (GDB) is the official central repository for genomic mapping data resulting from the Human Genome Initiative.
2. It was established at Johns Hopkins University in USA in 1990.
3. The Human Genome Initiative is a worldwide research effort to analyze the structure of human DNA and determine the location and sequence of the estimated 100,000 human genes.
4. In support of this project, GDB stores and curates data generated worldwide by those researchers engaged in the mapping effort of the Human Genome Project (HGP).
5. GDB's mission is to make available to scientists an encyclopedia of the human genome that is being constantly revised and updated to reflect the current state of scientific knowledge.
Source: The Hindu
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