Project Grant 2200290
- This three-year, $930,252 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Computing and Communication Foundations, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program, will support research exploring applications of digital microfluidic technology for DNA storage, computation, and synthetic biology. A team from the University of Minnesota will leverage an electronic platform developed by industrial partner Seagate to manipulate droplets and assemble DNA at...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $283,362 Project Grant under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program to the University of Texas at Dallas (UTD) to develop innovative approaches for expanding the practical capacity of synthetic DNA storage. The project aims to address key technical challenges that currently limit the scalability of DNA-based archival storage, which has the potential to preserve the growing volume of digital data worldwide for hundreds...
- This $300,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Computer and Network Systems, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070), will support research to develop efficient ways to enlarge practical DNA storage capacity by integrating bio-computer technologies. Led by researchers at the University of Minnesota, the interdisciplinary team will investigate approaches to improve the scalability of DNA storage, including identifying more...
- This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Computing and Communication Foundations, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070), provides $1,200,000 to the University of California, San Diego from August 1, 2022 to July 31, 2026. The award supports research into developing new coding techniques to enable DNA-based data storage. Specific objectives include establishing theoretical limits on DNA storage capacity and efficiency,...
- The National Science Foundation awarded a $300,000 project grant to the University of Texas at Dallas under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) for a project period of February 15, 2023 through January 31, 2025. The award will support the development of a secure DNA storage system using physically unclonable functions and CRISPR technology. Specifically, the university researchers will investigate using cell lines for distributed information storage and characterize genomic locations for...
- Federal Project Grant Award Summary Arizona State University, through its Office of Research and Sponsored Projects Administration, received a $750K Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Information and Intelligent Systems under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070), awarded October 1, 2026, with completion targeted for September 30, 2030. The project, titled "Toward Rewritable and Distributed In Vivo DNA Data Storage...
- Federal Grant Award Summary The University of Texas at Dallas received a $365,846 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Computer and Network Systems under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070), awarded October 1, 2025, with completion targeted for September 30, 2030. This CAREER award supports cross-layer optimization research for DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) storage systems designed to address global digital data preservation...
- The National Science Foundation awarded $375,000 under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to Boise State University for the project "SEMISYNBIO-III: Scalable Nucleic Acid Memory." The three-year project aims to advance DNA-based information storage through algorithms, imaging, and synthetic biology techniques. Specifically, the university will develop rotation-invariant data encoding and error correction, deep learning for image processing, and Bayes-optimal...
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (CFDA 47.041 - Engineering) totaling $1,400,000 aims to advance the manufacturing of ultra-high-density, DNA-enabled nanoelectronics systems. The key goals are to: Develop scalable methods for obtaining high-purity carbon nanotubes, self-aligned single-molecule junctions, and hybrid DNA nanostructures. Establish reliable processes for integrating bottom-up and top-down architectures using field-driven directed assembly and...
- This Project Grant award of $300,000 from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083) supports the development and experimental validation of computational tools for simulation-guided design of DNA nanostructures and molecular systems. The project aims to integrate high-level and low-level computational models to enable more powerful and user-friendly multiscale modeling frameworks for DNA nanotechnology. Key objectives include parameterizing coarse-grained...
This $600,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program will fund research at the University of Texas at Austin to develop DNA-based storage and computation techniques. Specifically, the award supports the creation of a "SIMD-DNA" paradigm that uses strand displacement reactions to manipulate digital data encoded in the topological structure of DNA. This approach aims to enable parallel, in-memory computation without needing to sequence and resynthesize DNA for each data update. Over the three-year period from July 2022 to June 2025, the researchers will establish the theoretical foundations for SIMD-DNA computation through modeling algorithms with strand displacement programs. They will also experimentally demonstrate molecular algorithms and methodology. Supplementary work includes developing simulation software and studying strand displacement on native DNA to improve fidelity and lower costs compared to synthesized DNA. The grant additionally supports undergraduate education and research training at the interface of computer science, electrical engineering, biology and chemistry.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
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| Not listed | $392.1k | 8/27/22 | ||
| Not listed | $207.9k | 5/25/22 |