Project Grant 0833779

This $318,485 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) aims to promote computational literacy in biochemistry and molecular biology (BMB) education. The project, led by the Rochester Institute of Technology, will identify the computational needs of the BMB community and develop freely accessible virtual workshops and coding exercises to train faculty on teaching computational skills. These resources will be made available on platforms like...

The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases awarded a $371,141 Project Grant to the University of Pittsburgh to develop, deploy, and evaluate a continuing education program called "FUNDAMENTALS IN BIOINFORMATICS (FUNINBIO)" that addresses bioinformatics skills gaps in post-doctoral scientists. The FUNINBIO program will provide a three-part curriculum covering programming fundamentals, an in-person short course on comparative genomics, and customized online training...

This Project Grant award, provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070), aims to develop new information theory techniques for processing out-of-order data. The $260,000 award to the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) will fund research to extend information theory methods to emerging applications like genomics and molecular data storage, where data is generated in an unstructured, out-of-order...

This three-year Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Information and Intelligent Systems under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program ($600,000) will support the development of new computational methods and software for analyzing collections of genomic variants. Specifically, the grantee, Carnegie Mellon University, will create algorithms and open-source software tools to more accurately construct, compare, and assess the complexity of genome...

This Project Grant, awarded by the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) under the Human Genome Research federal grant program (CFDA 93.172), provides $3,371,645.00 to Boston Medical Center Corporation (BMC) to develop a comprehensive suite of computational tools to unlock the full potential of spatial subcellular transcriptomics data. The key products and services to be delivered through this 4-year award (9/1/2025 - 8/31/2029) include: 1) Creating a scalable and extensible...

This $200,000 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program will fund research at the University of California, Berkeley to develop group testing methods for infectious disease monitoring and mitigation. Specifically, the grant supports the creation of specialized machine learning, combinatorial, and information-theoretic techniques to (1) identify low-mutation genomic regions for polymerase chain reaction (PCR) primers, (2) model...

This $565,783 National Science Foundation project grant under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program will support the development of new data structures and software for computational biology and big data storage systems at the University of Maryland, College Park. The grantee will create compact summary data structures that can represent huge datasets and fit within computer memory, enabling applications to run much more quickly and scale to larger data sets. The data...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) provides $200,000 to Rowan University to develop novel quantum algorithms for analyzing single-cell omics data. The project aims to build faster and more powerful computational tools for advancing the analysis of single-cell biological data and studying cellular behavior, interactions, and drug responses. Key deliverables include a suite of quantum algorithms to address complex tasks...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) provides $400,000 to Howard University to enhance computational biology training for undergraduate students. The key objectives are to develop new advanced computational biology courses, integrate big data analytics modules into existing biology courses, and establish a specialized image data analysis platform. These efforts aim to equip students with advanced skills in...

This Project Grant award of $548,180.00, provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) through its Biological Sciences (CFDA 47.074) program, will fund a research coordination network focused on enhancing the integration of experimental and computational biology research. The primary activity will be an annual meeting that will bring together a broad cross-section of researchers to address critical methodological, training, collaboration, and standardization challenges facing the field....