NIH Bioinformatics Grants awarded June 30 — July 26, 2010
Project Title: Robust Methods for the Efficient Analysis and Integration of DNA Sequence Data
Principal Investigator: Allen, Andrew
Organization: Duke University
Project Start Date: Sept. 26, 2008
Project End Date: June 30, 2011
RFA/PA: RFA-MH-08-040
Funding Institute: NIMH
FY Total Cost: $443,939 (two separate awards)
Project Title: S1070 Tesla GPU Cluster
Principal Investigator: Altman, Russ Biagio
Organization: Stanford University
Project Start Date: July 8, 2010
Project End Date: July 7, 2011
RFA/PA: PAR-09-028
Funding Institute: NCRR
FY Total Cost: $500,000
Project Title: Training Program in Bioinformatics
Principal Investigator: Athey, Brian David
Organization: University of Michigan at Ann Arbor
Project Start Date: July 1, 2005
Project End Date: June 30, 2011
RFA/PA: N/A
Funding Institute: NIGMS
FY Total Cost: $131,899
Project Title: Training Grant in Genomic Analysis and Interpretation
Principal Investigator: Azen, Stanley
Organization: University of Southern California
Project Start Date: July 1, 2006
Project End Date: June 30, 2011
RFA/PA: N/A
Funding Institute: NIEHS
FY Total Cost: $207,204
Project Title: The Nomenclature of Human Genes
Principal Investigator: Birney, Ewan
Organization: European Molecular Biology Laboratory
Project Start Date: Sept. 15, 2004
Project End Date: June 30, 2012
RFA/PA: N/A
Funding Institute: NHGRI
FY Total Cost: $325,004
Project Title: EDAC: Encode Data Analysis Center
Principal Investigator: Birney, Ewan
Organization: European Molecular Biology Laboratory
Project Start Date: May 15, 2008
Project End Date: March 31, 2012
RFA/PA: RFA-HG-07-010
Funding Institute: NHGRI
FY Total Cost: $1,248,287
Project Title: Computational Tools for T- and B-Cell Epitope Prediction
Principal Investigator: Braun, Werner
Organization: University of Texas Medical Br Galveston
Project Start Date: Feb. 1, 2010
Project End Date: Jan. 31, 2011
RFA/PA: PAR-03-106
Funding Institute: NIAID
FY Total Cost: $252,819
Project Title: Nutrition, Biostatistics and Bioinformatics
Principal Investigator: Carroll, Raymond
Organization: Texas A&M University System
Project Start Date: July 1, 2001
Project End Date: June 30, 2011
RFA/PA: PAR-03-148
Funding Institute: NCI
FY Total Cost: $524,339
Project Title: Bioinformatics Training in the Life Sciences and Biomedicine
Principal Investigator: Casavant, Thomas
Organization: University of Iowa
Project Start Date: July 1, 2009
Project End Date: June 30, 2014
RFA/PA: PAR-99-146
Funding Institute: NIGMS
FY Total Cost: $66,946
Project Title: Integrated Desktop Software for Management of Hepatitic C Data
Principal Investigator: Craig, Johanna
Organization: Gataca
Project Start Date: July 19, 2010
Project End Date: July 18, 2011
RFA/PA: PAR-07-160
Funding Institute: NIAID
FY Total Cost: $34,000
Project Title: Open-Source Toolkit for Knowledge-Based Querying of Time-Oriented Data
Principal Investigator: Das, Amarendra
Organization: Stanford University
Project Start Date: July 1, 2009
Project End Date: June 30, 2011
RFA/PA: PA-07-070
Funding Institute: NLM
FY Total Cost: $809,109
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Project Title: Bioinformatic Approaches to Small Molecule Profiling of Cardiometabolic Disease
Principal Investigator: Deo, Rahul Chandrakant
Organization: Massachusetts General Hospital
Project Start Date: July 15, 2010
Project End Date: June 30, 2015
RFA/PA: PA-09-042
Funding Institute: NHLBI
FY Total Cost: $136,958
Project Title: Integration of Phenotype Data from Multiple Centers Using Ontologies
Principal Investigator: Dwinell, Melinda
Organization: Medical College of Wisconsin
Project Start Date: July 15, 2010
Project End Date: June 30, 2013
RFA/PA: PAR-07-425
Funding Institute: NHLBI
FY Total Cost: $377,400
Project Title: Center for Critical Assessment of Structure Prediction
Principal Investigator: Fidelis, Krzysztof
Organization: University of California Davis
Project Start Date: Aug. 1, 2004
Project End Date: June 14, 2012
RFA/PA: PAR-04-142
Funding Institute: NLM
FY Total Cost: $571,896
Project Title: Widely Distributed Software for Using Mass Spectrometry to Identify Glycans
Principal Investigator: Goldberg, David
Organization: Palo Alto Research Center
Project Start Date: July 19, 2010
Project End Date: April 30, 2014
RFA/PA: PAR-08-010
Funding Institute: NCRR
FY Total Cost: $414,068
Project Title: Error Correction in Multiple Sequence Alignments
Principal Investigator: Graur, Dan
Organization: University of Houston
Project Start Date: July 1, 2009
Project End Date: June 30, 2011
RFA/PA: PAR-08-080
Funding Institute: NLM
FY Total Cost: $562,500
Project Title: Accurate Protein Structural Comparisons by Topofit
Principal Investigator: Ilyin, Valentin
Organization: Boston College
Project Start Date: May 1, 2008
Project End Date: April 30, 2011
RFA/PA: PA-07-070
Funding Institute: NLM
FY Total Cost: $235,759
Project Title: Repbase Update — A Database of Repetitive Sequences
Principal Investigator: Jurka, Jerzy Wladyslaw
Organization: Genetic Information Research institute
Project Start Date: Sept. 30, 1996
Project End Date: April 30, 2014
RFA/PA: RFA-LM-08-001
Funding Institute: NLM
FY Total Cost: $552,583
Project Title: Infectious Disease Genomics and Bioinformatics Training in Brazil
Principal Investigator: Kissinger, Jessica
Organization: University of Georgia
Project Start Date: June 1, 2004
Project End Date: June 30, 2014
RFA/PA: RFA-TW-09-001
Funding Institute: FIC
FY Total Cost: $150,000
Project Title: Advances in Computational Gene Finding
Principal Investigator: Korf, Ian
Organization: University of California Davis
Project Start Date: Sept. 1, 2007
Project End Date: June 30, 2012
RFA/PA: N/A
Funding Institute: NHGRI
FY Total Cost: $307,762
Project Title: New Simulation Methods at Multi-Scale and -Resolutions
Principal Investigator: Ma, Jianpeng
Organization: Baylor College of Medicine
Project Start Date: July 1, 2003
Project End Date: June 30, 2012
RFA/PA: PA-07-070
Funding Institute: NIGMS
FY Total Cost: $273,537
Project Title: The Rutgers Mapping Resources
Principal Investigator: Matise, Tara
Organization: Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick
Project Start Date: July 10, 2007
Project End Date: June 30, 2011
RFA/PA: PAR-05-057
Funding Institute: NIGMS
FY Total Cost: $110,338
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Project Title: Coordinating and Bioinformatics Unit for the AMDCC/MMPC
Principal Investigator: McIndoe, Richard
Organization: Medical College of Georgia
Project Start Date: Sept. 15, 2006
Project End Date: June 30, 2011
RFA/PA: RFA-DK-05-012
Funding Institute: NIDDK
FY Total Cost: $3,475,214
Project Title: Continued Development of the Celera Whole Genome Shotgun Assembler
Principal Investigator: Miller, Jason Rafe
Organization: J. Craig Venter Institute
Project Start Date: May 11, 2006
Project End Date: June 30, 2012
RFA/PA: PA-07-070
Funding Institute: NIGMS
FY Total Cost: $598,559
Project Title: Software for Analyzing Biosequence Data
Principal Investigator: Miller, Webb Colby
Organization: Pennsylvania State University, University Park
Project Start Date: Aug. 15, 2000
Project End Date: June 30, 2011
RFA/PA: PA-07-070
Funding Institute: NHGRI
FY Total Cost: $708,479
Project Title: Center for Computational Mass-Spectrometry
Principal Investigator: Pevzner, Pavel
Organization: University of California, San Diego
Project Start Date: Sept. 20, 2008
Project End Date: June 30, 2013
RFA/PA: N/A
Funding Institute: NCRR
FY Total Cost: $1,062,982
Project Title: Integrated Approaches to Deriving Predictive Networks from Public Data Sources
Principal Investigator: Quackenbush, John
Organization: Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Project Start Date: July 1, 2009
Project End Date: June 30, 2011
RFA/PA: RFA-GM-09-008
Funding Institute: NLM
FY Total Cost: $668,529
Project Title: A Massive RAM Computer Cluster
Principal Investigator: Reid, Jeffrey Gordon
Organization: Baylor College of Medicine
Project Start Date: July 22, 2010
Project End Date: July 21, 2011
RFA/PA: PAR-09-028
Funding Institute: NCRR
FY Total Cost: $261,638
Project Title: Fast 3D Reconstruction Algorithms for Cryo-EM
Principal Investigator: Tagare, Hemant
Organization: Yale University
Project Start Date: July 15, 2010
Project End Date: July 14, 2014
RFA/PA: PA-07-070
Funding Institute: NLM
FY Total Cost: $419,506
Project Title: Development and Maintenance of Panther Software
Principal Investigator: Thomas, Paul
Organization: University of Southern California
Project Start Date: April 1, 2008
Project End Date: March 31, 2011
RFA/PA: PAR-07-235
Funding Institute: NIGMS
FY Total Cost: $712,939
Project Title: Automated Literature Mining for Validation of High-Throughput Function Prediction
Principal Investigator: Verspoor, Karin Maria
Organization: University of Colorado Denver
Project Start Date: July 1, 2009
Project End Date: June 30, 2011
RFA/PA: RFA-GM-09-008
Funding Institute: NLM
FY Total Cost: $711,389
Project Title: Prediction and Network Construction Using High-Throughput Data
Principal Investigator: Yeung-Rhee, Ka Yee
Organization: University of Washington
Project Start Date: Sept. 1, 2008
Project End Date: June 30, 2013
RFA/PA: PA-07-070
Funding Institute: NIGMS
FY Total Cost: $462,742
Project Title: Atomic-Level, Large-Scale Structure Prediction of G Protein-Coupled Receptors
Principal Investigator: Zhang, Yang
Organization: University of Michigan at Ann Arbor
Project Start Date: May 1, 2009
Project End Date: Feb. 28, 2013
RFA/PA: PA-07-070
Funding Institute: NIGMS
FY Total Cost: $318,181