As we watched one announcement after another of public funding for computational biology centers come out recently (see story, p. 11), it seemed like the time was ripe to take a look at some of the biggest grants NIH has awarded to the field. Here, we list grants that were issued between Jan. 1 and Sept. 15, 2005, that clearly support bioinformatics research. For the sake of space, we selected only the largest of the grants given out. This list is not comprehensive.
ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY
Sudhir Kumar
Computatonal Analysis of Gene Expression Pattern Images
$617,707
BOSTON COLLEGE
Gabor Marth
A General Bayesian Polymorphism Discovery Tool
$369,355
BRIGHAM AND WOMEN''S HOSPITAL
Isaac Kohane
Informatics for Integrating Biology and the Bedside
$4,000,000
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES
Carol Friedman
Capturing and Linking Genomic and Clinical Information
$478,937
Andrey Rzhetsky
Computer Systems for Functional Analysis of Genomic Data
$395,905
HARVARD UNIVERSITY
William Gelbart
FLYBASE: A Drosophila Genomic & Genetic Database
$4,628,995
Gerhard Wagner
NMR and Computational Studies of Biomolecules
$1,200,961
Frederick Roth
Computational Methods for Directed Functional Genomics
$400,000
INCOGEN
Maciek Sasinowski
Proteomics Software Package for the Detection of Cancer
$1,202,334
J. DAVID GLADSTONE INSTITUTES
Bruce Conklin
GenMAPP: A Tool for Pathway Analysis of Genomic Data
$435,174
JACKSON LABORATORY
Janan Eppig
Mouse Genome Informatics
$5,385,171
MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
Isaac Kohane
Training Grant in Bioinformatics and Functional Genomics
$1,070,547
Jill Mesirov
Supporting Expression Analysis Users with GenePattern
$467,013
Peter Sorger
Computation & Mechanical Modeling of Chromosome Dynamics
$359,906
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY
David Botstein
Integrating and Disseminating Functional Genomics Data
$563,349
STANFORD UNIVERSITY
Michael Cherry
Genomic Database for the Yeast Saccharomyces
$2,394,099
Wing Wong
Analysis of Oligonucleotide Gene Expression Array Data
$532,873
Arend Sidow
The ProPhylER Database and Web Resource
$469,904
Sylvia Plevritis
Computational Modeling of Cancer Biology
$449,266
David Relman
Analytical Tools for Comparative Microbial Genomics
$422,871
Gavin Sherlock
Genomic Database for Candida Albicans
$400,000
UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA
Hsinchun Chen
GeneScene: A Toolkit for Gene Pathway Analysis
$453,468
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY
Michael Eisen
Computational Analysis of Developmental cis-Regulation
$687,090
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES
Kenneth Lange
Statistical Methods for Gene Mapping
$444,710
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO
Trey Ideker
Cytoscape: A Modeling Platform for Biomolecular Networks
$372,903
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA CRUZ
Carol Rohl
ROSETTA: An Integrated Protein Structure Modeling Suite
$612,495
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MEDICAL CENTER
Charles Little
Computational Biology of Vascular Cell Behavior
$373,936
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA
Lyle Ungar
Training Grant in Computational Genomics
$502,255
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
Simon Tavare
Computational Methods for Functional Genomics
$406,250
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON
John Stamatoyannopoulos
Computational Discovery of cis-regulatory Sequences
$586,428
William Noble
Detecting Relations Among Heterogeneous Genomic Datasets
$412,000
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN
George Phillips
Computation and Informatics in Biology and Medicine
$1,108,085
YALE UNIVERSITY
Irina Buhimschi
A Proteomics Computational Approach to Preterm Delivery
$367,875