It is a distributed national database infrastructure offering information on diverse aspects of bioresources of the country and their uses. The major goal of IBIN is to network the otherwise independent databases and information through a single portal to serve research scientists, bio-resource managers, policy makers, entrepreneurs and common man.

Key Features

• A web-based network and service system on bio-resources of the country.

• Network of independently functioning distributed databases

• Integrates spatial and non-spatial databases on biological resource.

• Promotes co-evolutionary growth among databases

• Aims at an open-ended growth of the network

• Adds value to independently developed bio-resource databases.

USES of IBIN

• Facilitate Bio-prospecting

• Help Bio-resource conservation

• Prevent Bio-Piracy

• Assist in protecting IPR

• Facilitate judicious harvesting and marketing of

• A Learning tool on Bio-resources

Components

• Non-Spatial Node at University of Agricultural Sciences, Bangalore (Bioresource Unit)

• Spatial Node at IIRS, Dehradun (Biodiversity Information System).

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