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Funding Update: NIH Bioinformatics Grants Awarded March 13, — April 24, 2014, Part 2

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Project Title: National Infrastructure for Standardized and Portable EHR Phenotyping Algorithms
Principal Investigator: Pathak, Jyotishman
Organization: Mayo Clinic
Project Start Date: June 3, 2013
Project End Date: March 31, 2017
Funding Institute: NIGMS
FY Total Cost: $576,177


Project Title: Statistical Method for Medical Tests and Biomarkers
Principal Investigator: Pepe, Margaret
Organization: Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Project Start Date: May 1, 1996
Project End Date: March 31, 2016
Funding Institute: NIGMS
FY Total Cost: $333,535


Project Title: Novel Analytical Methods for Rare Variant Detection in Biopolar Disorder
Principal Investigator: Pirooznia, Mehdi
Organization: Johns Hopkins University
Project Start Date: July 1, 2011
Project End Date: March 31, 2016
Funding Institute: NIMH
FY Total Cost: $177,961


Project Title: New Algorithms and Tools for Large-scale Genomic Analyses
Principal Investigator: Quinlan, Aaron
Organization: University of Virginia
Project Start Date: April 19, 2012
Project End Date: March 31, 2016
Funding Institute: NHGRI
FY Total Cost: $398,087


Project Title: Fence Methods for Mixed Model Selection: Theory and Applications
Principal Investigator: Rao, Sunil
Organization: University of Miami School of Medicine
Project Start Date: April 1, 2010
Project End Date: March 31, 2015
Funding Institute: NIGMS
FY Total Cost: $259,778


Project Title: Bioinformatics Software for Analyzing Microbial Genomes
Principal Investigator: Salzberg, Steven
Organization: Johns Hopkins University
Project Start Date: March 25, 2008
Project End Date: Jan 31, 2018
Funding Institute: NIGMS
FY Total Cost: $243,000


Project Title: AutoDock-Fr: A Modular Approach to Flexible Receptor Docking
Principal Investigator: Sanner, Michael
Organization: Scripps Research Institute
Project Start Date: April 15, 2011
Project End Date: March 31, 2016
Funding Institute: NIGMS
FY Total Cost: $379,000


Project Title: Computational Methods for Human Genomic Data Integration: Demography, Selection
Principal Investigator: Siepel, Adam
Organization: Cornell University
Project Start Date: Jan. 1, 2013
Project End Date: Dec. 31, 2017
Funding Institute: NIGMS
FY Total Cost: $339,311


Project Title: Predicting and Analyzing Protein Interaction Networks
Principal Investigator: Singh, Mona
Organization: Princeton University
Project Start Date: Feb. 18, 2006
Project End Date: Mar. 31, 2016
Funding Institute: NIGMS
FY Total Cost: $307,890


Project Title: Innovative Approaches for Analyzing SEER Breast Cancer Data
Principal Investigator: Sinha, Samiran
Organization: Texas A&M University
Project Start Date: April 1, 2013
Project End Date: Mar. 31, 2015
Funding Institute: NCI
FY Total Cost: $72,015


Project Title: Predicting Transcriptional and Epigenetic Networks in Cancer from Sequencing Data
Principal Investigator: Song, Jun
Organization: University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Project Start Date: Dec. 16, 2011
Project End Date: Nov. 30, 2014
Funding Institute: NCI
FY Total Cost: $333,516


Project Title: Scripps Genome Adviser: Annotation and Distributed Variant Interpretation Server
Principal Investigator: Torkamani, Ali
Organization: Scripps Health
Project Start Date: Feb. 1, 2012
Project End Date: Dec. 31, 2015
Funding Institute: NHGRI
FY Total Cost: $186,934


Project Title: Database-centric Data Analysis of Molecular Simulations
Principal Investigator: Tu, Yicheng
Organization: University of South Florida
Project Start Date: April 15, 2010
Project End Date: March 31, 2015
Funding Institute: NIGMS
FY Total Cost: $141,188


Project Title: Analytical Approaches to Massive Data Computation with Applications to Genomics
Principal Investigator: Upfal, Eliezer
Organization: Brown University
Project Start Date: June 18, 2013
Project End Date: March 31, 2017
Funding Institute: NCI
FY Total Cost: $69,189


Project Title: Computational Mapping of Proteins for the Binding of Ligands
Principal Investigator: Vajda, Sandor
Organization: Boston University
Project Start Date: Feb. 1, 2003
Project End Date: March 31, 2015
Funding Institute: NIGMS
FY Total Cost: $355,709


Project Title: Characterizing the Genetic Systems of Autism through Multi-disease Analysis
Principal Investigator: Wall, Dennis
Organization: Stanford University
Project Start Date: March 5, 2010
Project End Date: Dec. 31, 2014
Funding Institute: NIMH
FY Total Cost: $498,198


Project Title: A Computational Biology Approach to Mapping Nucleosomes in Stem Cells
Principal Investigator: Wang, Ji-Ping
Organization: Northwestern University
Project Start Date: April 15, 2014
Project End Date: Feb. 28, 2018
Funding Institute: NIGMS
FY Total Cost: $293,550


Project Title: Development of a Computational Framework for TCR Engineering
Principal Investigator: Weng, Zhiping
Organization: University of Massachusetts Medical School
Project Start Date: April 1, 2013
Project End Date: March 31, 2017
Funding Institute: NIGMS
FY Total Cost: $301,607


Project Title: ZFIN: The Zebrafish Model Organism Database
Principal Investigator: Westerfield, Monte
Organization: University of Oregon
Project Start Date: July 11, 2003
Project End Date: Feb. 29, 2016
Funding Institute: NHGRI
FY Total Cost: $3,108,814


Project Title: An Integrative Approach to Construct a Regulatory Network Effected by TDZS
Principal Investigator: Won, Kyoung-Jae
Organization: University of Pennsylvania
Project Start Date: April 1, 2013
Project End Date: March 31, 2015
Funding Institute: NIDDK
FY Total Cost: $200,000


Project Title: Genome-transcriptome-phenome-wide Association: A New Paradigm for Association Stu[dies]
Principal Investigator: Xing, Poe
Organization: Carnegie-Mellon University
Project Start Date: May 15, 2009
Project End Date: March 31, 2015
Funding Institute: NIGMS
FY Total Cost: $492,794


Project Title: Analysis of Genomic Data for Complex Traits
Principal Investigator: Zhang, Heping
Organization: Yale University
Project Start Date: July 1, 2003
Project End Date: March 31, 2017
Funding Institute: NIDA
FY Total Cost: $291,188


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