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- Department of Biotechnology(DBT) has launched ‘MANAV: Human Atlas Initiative’ towards improving knowledge on human physiology.
- It is a project for mapping every tissue of the human body to help better understand the roles of tissues and cells linked to various diseases.The project will create a database network of all tissues in the human body from the available scientific literature.
- The student community will be the backbone on assimilating the information.They will be trained and imparted with skills to perform annotation and curation of information that will ultimately form the online network.
- The programme will involve (a)gaining better biological insights through physiological and molecular mapping (b)develop disease models through predictive computing and (c)have a holistic analysis and finally drug discovery.
- The collected data can be useful for future researchers and clinicians and drug developers who finally handle human bodies in disease conditions.
- The database will also come in handy in tracing causes of a disease, understanding specific pathways and ultimately decoding how the body’s disease stage is linked to tissues and cells.



