Indian Bioresources Information Network (IBIN) is a distributed national database infrastructure offering information on diverse aspects of bio-resources of the country.The IBIN logo contains three circles which represent the three components our planet that sustains our biological systems: Blue for water ; Green for vegetation and other life and Brown for soil or earth These also represent the three elements viz., aquatic, terrestrial and aerial habitats that sustain the entire life system The three are also shown to be merging smoothly suggesting critical inter-linkages among the diverse life sustaining systems