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Analysis on Centre’s recently unveiled National Biotechnology Development Strategy 2015-2020  Click here to read National Biotechnology Development Strategy 2015-2020 Summary of the analysis: The Department of Biotechnology (DBT) of the Government of India announced a National Biotechnology Development Strategy (NBDS), covering the period 2015-2020. The overarching goal of NBDS is to set in place processes that will result in the growth of the Indian biotechnology sector into a $100 billion industry by the year 2020. The NBDS underlines the Government’s commitment to promoting basic research and education at the highest level. The new policy bodes well for bioinformatics – in research as well as education through diplomas and modules in mainstream courses in biotechnology. The unprecedented feature of the landscape of interdisciplinary biology today is the scale and sophistication of the interface between the quantitative way of life of the physical and computatio...