Goemkarponn Desk
PANAJI: Twenty three scientists set sail on a research vessel off the eastern coast of India today (14 March 2021) on a three-month-long quest to map the genomic and proteomic diversity of the Indian Ocean. Peering into the biochemical processes in ocean life, the scientists from the National Institute of Oceanography (NIO) also hope to come back with a deeper understanding of how the ocean responds to climate change, nutrient stress and pollution.
The research vessel Sindhu Sadhana, flagged off from the Visakhapatnam coast in Andhra Pradesh, will cover a distance of nearly 10,000 nautical miles trying to identify and characterise genes and proteins from marine life.
The researchers will also explore the macro- and micro-nutrients in the waters to understand cellular level operations of ocean organisms, NIO Director Sunil Kumar Singh told Nature India.
