New Delhi, Oct 7 (UNI) The Union Cabinet on Wednesday was apprised of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed in June, 2020 between the Zoological Survey of India (ZSI), a subordinate organisation under the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, and the International Barcode of Life (iBOL), a Canadian not-for-profit corporation.
The Cabinet meeting was headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
ZSI and iBOL have come together for further efforts in DNA barcoding, a methodology for rapidly and accurately identifying species by sequencing a short segment of standardized gene regions and comparing individual sequences to a reference database, an official statement said here.
iBOL is a research alliance, involving nations that have committed both human and financial resources to enable expansion of the global reference database, the development of informatics platforms, and analytical protocols needed to use the reference library to inventory, assess, and describe biodiversity.
The MoU will enable the ZSI to participate at global level programmes like Bioscan and Planetary Biodiversity Mission, it added.
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