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FAR info Source Selection Information See FAR 2.101 and FAR 3.104

Metrics-composite

Technical Services & CapabilitiesMetrics (number of activities or projects per year)Notes
Advanced scientific computing and bioinformaticsMaintain 2 data coordinating centers

Maintain the NCI Cancer Research Data Commons and its associated nodes, including data curation, quality assurance, and establishing new nodes (with CBIIT)

Number of projects encompassing the following activities ≈ 500

- Engineer, install, configure, and maintain the scientific research computing environment based on modern HPC CPU and GPU nodes

- Support and enhance the computing environment (Data analysis pipelines)

- Cloud computing (Adopt and migrate plans, cloud application design and cloud management and monitoring)

- Maintain and support bioinformatics tools and databases, e.g., gene sequencing

- Provide software tools and computational algorithms to collect, integrate, analyze, visualize, and interpret data

- Statistical design of experiments; data mining & knowledge discovery techniques; data workflow applications dev

- Scientific web development

- Develop and deploy web applications to support lab logistics and FNL business operations.

- AI, Machine learning and/or Deep learning

- Computational modeling, e.g., prediction of drug properties, molecular dynamics simulations, digital pathology

- Quality assurance and control of software and data, e.g., harmonization of new and existing data

- Bioinformatics Training (BTEP)

- Bioinformatics Analysis Animal sciences Animal cages: 2.3 million, including 350 non-human primate cages Mice: ~625,000 Rats: ~650 ~275 investigators supported and ~600 Active ASPs Animal Research & Tech Support project: ~30,000, including species identification and technical support for colony maintenance and experimentation.

Gnotobiotics Animal Science project: ~2000 Genetically-engineered mouse models generated: ~65K mice STR profiling assays: 3500 Assay development and execution Clinical trial support CLIA assays (domestic): 5,000 samples Clinical trial support CLIA assays (ex-US): 30,000 sanples Clinical trial support Research Use Only (RUO) assays: 22,000 samples

Preclinical RUO assays: 8,000 samplesIncludes serology assays and multiple assay formats. "Preclinical" includes basic and translational research phases. Nucleic acid-based assays are covered primarily under Molecular Biology.
Biospecimen processingDNA extractions: 35,000

Clinical sample processing: 30,000 Aliquoting: 2.2 M vials Sample shipping: 30,000 shipping events Cancer cell biology Mass cytometry projects: 10 Flow cytometry projects, including cell sorts, cell line/organoid analysis : ~13,000 Cell sort projects: 300 cGMP production of clinical materials, including validation assays Vaccine production projects: ~15, up to 100K vials. Combination of broadly neutralizng mAbs, plasmid DNA, recombinant glycoproteins, antigen presenting nanoparticles

Recombinant protein and antibody projcts: 10 projects (200-10,000 vials, 200L bioreactor/fermenter scale, 100 mg – 1 kg deliverable) Viral vectors: 12 (each avg 500 vials, 10e15 vp deliverable) Individual Cell Therapies: 80 (each avg 2 x 50 mL doses, 10e8 cells/dose) Chemistry Small scale synthesis projects (~25 mg scale): 750 Larger scale synthesis projects (gram scale): 15

Clinical studies support600 active clinical trial protocols (50/50 US and ex-US); ~50 sites domestic and ex-US
No. INDs: 45Most ex-US trials are run by NIAID in Africa.
Drug discovery and developmentIn vitro screening projects: 80

Toxicology studies: 60 Pharmacokinetic (PK) studies: 25 Patient Derived Xenograftr drug studies: 160 Xenograft drug studies (efficacy, PK/PD, tumor targeting): 80

ImagingIn vivo tumor imaging projects: 200
IT servicesMaintain 500+ biomedical databases to support multiple scientific projects.

Maintain 100+ biomedical annotation databases used by multiple FNL/NCI projects.

Maintain 30 databases to support ERP, Purchase Support Request Systems, FNL and NCI websites, electronic lab notebooks, and custom applications.

Websites supported: >50 Molecular biology Low and high-throughput gneotyping assays: ~ 80K assays (animal sciences facility) Samples studied with NGS and single cell sequencing platforms, specialized genomics applications and technologies, spatial genomics and in situ sequencing technologies: 32,000 Small-scale protein production projects: 75 (ug --> mg) Large scale protein production project: 50 (10s mg) Molecular cloning projects associated with protein expression: 150 DNA extractions: >2000

Nanotechnology2 formulation projects, including physical characterization and pharmacokinetics.
OmicsNumber of projects encompassing the following activities ≈ 800

- Identification of proteins and post-translational modifications

- Post-translational modification (PTM) studies using established methods

- Protein-protein and protein-DNA/RNA/peptide interactions

- Large scale proteomics (including PTM) and analytical separation projects involving mass spectrometry analysis

- Surface plasmon resonance studies

- Targeted metabolite analysis using established assays

- New targeted metabolite assays developed followed by sample analysis Pathology (preclinical & clinical) H&E staining slides: 22,000 Immunohistochemistry slides: 9,000 Necropsies: 900 Laser capture microdissections: 1,100

RepositoriesMain Repository: 18.5 million samples. Anticipated to grow to 56 million over next 20 years.
Structural biologyCryo-Electron Microscopy: 350 data collections

SEM & TEM (non-cryo): 20 data collections

Virology
Develop virus like particles for 9 HPV subtypes; 2-3 subtypes/yrViral DNA/RNA quantitation and serology assays included under Assay Development & Execution and Molecular Biology.

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