Govt weighs ₹8,000 crore corpus, Section 8 company for genome research initiative
Status of extant programmes
Launched in 2020, the biotechnology department’s GenomeIndia project completed 10,174 whole genome sequences, created a national genomic variation catalogue, set up a biobank with over 20,000 biospecimens, and identified nearly 180 million genetic variants, minister of state for science and technology Jitendra Singh informed the Rajya Sabha in July.
