India, June 18 -- By Shalini Bhardwaj

Pune (Maharashtra) [India], June 18 (ANI): The NAKSHATRA state-of-the-art initiative aims to revolutionise how genomic and bioinformatics data are processed, addressing limitations faced during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Speaking to ANI, ICMR-NIV Pune Director Dr Naveen Kumar, explaining about NAKSHATRA, said, "A high-performance computing system has been launched. This is the first kind of facility for the sequence analysis or genomic surveillance of pathogens under the ICMR."

He further said, "So nowadays, many new COVID variants, viruses, or pathogens are being reported. Our resources were insufficient because analysing the millions of sequences in the public domain takes a lot of time. We were doin...