Project Grant 2136950

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $399,967 Project Grant under the Biological Sciences (CFDA 47.074) program to the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) to plan and facilitate a workshop on the benefits and risks of publishing studies involving in silico modeling and computational approaches to understand and design biological systems. The workshop aims to: (1) define critical issues associated with publishing studies that may fall under the purview of the U.S. Government's policy on...

This National Science Foundation project grant of $300,000 supports research aimed at accelerating synthetic biology discovery through integrated curation. Funded under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), the University of Colorado Boulder will develop an integrated curation framework and search framework to enable genetic design information sharing according to FAIR data principles. The frameworks will facilitate digital publication submissions with curated genetic sequence and...

The Global Genomic Medicine Collaborative (G2Mc) received a $109,050 project grant from the National Institutes of Health National Human Genome Research Institute to support its 6th International Conference on Genomic Medicine Implementation in Low Resource Settings. The conference will be held in September-October 2021 in Santiago, Chile and aims to bring together leaders in genomic medicine to discuss best practices for implementing genomics into diverse healthcare delivery systems. A hybrid...

This three-year, $240,000 project grant from the National Science Foundation will support genomic research and public education on wildlife viral emergence in Cambodia. Funded under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), the award will enable a postdoctoral fellow to conduct metagenomic surveillance of rodents, mosquitoes, and the environment to detect known and novel viruses. Sequence data will be analyzed alongside climate and landscape data to model zoonotic spillover risk. The fellow...

This $2,963,428 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) aims to develop critical infrastructure and tools for interpreting genomic data. The project will create high-quality genome assembly workflows, comprehensive documentation, and interactive training materials to make these advanced genomic analysis capabilities accessible to a wide audience of biology researchers. This will enable downstream discoveries in areas such as...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation, under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), provides $2,999,552 to the University of Nevada, Reno to quantify the phytochemical landscape of indigenous communities through knowledge integration, interaction diversity genomics, and network dynamics from 2022-2026. Key products include the development of an accessible website compiling edited video interviews with Kichwa and Waorani elders on plant-animal networks and interspecies...

This $923,098 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) aims to strengthen global biodiversity research by building informatics capacity for ancient environmental DNA (aDNA) analysis. The grant will enable the integration of aDNA data into an open data ecosystem and establish a governance framework and social infrastructure to ensure high-quality, interoperable aDNA data and analytics. Specifically, the project will extend...

This $482,583 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) will fund the Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden to curate and digitize the Sherwin Carlquist collection and create an Extended Specimen Network. The collection, held at the Garden's herbarium and the Botanical Research Institute of Texas library, contains over 191,000 objects from Dr. Carlquist's 30-year botanical research career. The project will preserve these important collections,...

The Trustees of Boston University were awarded a $379,781 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation under the Biological Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.074) to undertake the "DIGITIZATION TCN: COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: BRINGING ASIA TO DIGITAL LIFE: MOBILIZING UNDERREPRESENTED ASIAN HERBARIUM COLLECTIONS IN THE US TO PROPEL BIODIVERSITY DISCOVERY" project. The grant will support efforts to digitize underrepresented Asian plant collections housed at U.S. herbaria to...

This federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) provides $237,500.00 to Northeastern University to develop new indexing tools that will enable real-time, scalable sequence search capabilities over the Sequence Read Archive (SRA), a vast repository of publicly available genomic data. The key objectives of this 3-year project are to: 1) extend the previously developed Mantis index to efficiently index SRA data, including...