About Us

The Indian Crop Phenome Database (ICPD), developed by the Indian Biological Data Centre (IBDC) at the Regional Centre for Biotechnology, Faridabad, is an open-access platform for the archiving, management, analysis, and sharing of crop phenome data. Although a large volume of crop phenotyping data is generated through agricultural trials worldwide, much of it remains unpublished and inaccessible to the wider research community. ICPD addresses this gap by providing a centralised, user-friendly platform, open to researchers everywhere, that organises and preserves multi-crop phenome data in compliance with the MIAPPE standard and the FAIR principles — findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable. Each submitted dataset undergoes curation and is assigned a unique, persistent IBDC accession, and the platform supports both open and managed access submission modes. ICPD operates under a CC BY-NC-SA licensing framework that ensures proper attribution while supporting ethical, non-commercial reuse. ICPD is a member database of the AgBioData Consortium and is registered in FAIRsharing.