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Funding Update: NIH Bioinformatics Grants Awarded Sept. 2 — Oct. 3, 2014

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Project Title: Methods for Accurate and Efficient Discovery of Local Pathways
Principal Investigator: Aliferis, Constantin
Organization: New York University School of Medicine
Project Start Date: Sept. 1, 2012
Project End Date: Aug. 31, 2016
Funding Institute: NLM
FY Total Cost: $277,150


Project Title: Informatics Tools for Pharmacogenomic Discovery Using Practice-based Data
Principal Investigator: Denny, Joshua Charles
Organization: Vanderbilt University
Project Start Date: Sept. 18, 2014
Project End Date: May 31, 2018
Funding Institute: NIGMS
FY Total Cost: $648,591


Project Title: Methods for High-resolution Analysis of Genetic Effects on Gene Expression
Principal Investigator: Dermitzakis, Emmanouil
Organization: Vanderbilt University
Project Start Date: Aug. 1, 2013
Project End Date: June 30, 2016
Funding Institute: NIMH
FY Total Cost: $142,018


Project Title: Methods for High-resolution Analysis of Genetic Effects on Gene Expression
Principal Investigator: Dermitzakis, Emmanouil
Organization: Vanderbilt University
Project Start Date: Aug. 1, 2013
Project End Date: June 30, 2016
Funding Institute: NIMH
FY Total Cost: $123,230


Project Title: Computational Pharmacology
Principal Investigator: Bahar, Ivet
Organization: University of Pittsburgh
Project Start Date: N/A
Project End Date: N/A
Funding Institute: NIDDK
FY Total Cost: $139,412


Project Title: UniProt: A Centralized Protein Sequence and Function Resource
Principal Investigator: Bateman, Alex
Organization: European Molecular Biology Laboratory
Project Start Date: Sept. 18, 2014
Project End Date: May 31, 2018
Funding Institute: NHGRI
FY Total Cost: $4,650,000


Project Title: Comprehensive Glycoprotemic Tool Development for Cancer Biomarkers
Principal Investigator: Becker, Christopher
Organization: Protein Metrics
Project Start Date: Sept. 22, 2014
Project End Date: Aug 31, 2016
Funding Institute: NIGMS
FY Total Cost: $342,930


Project Title: Analytic Methods for Determining Multimodal Biomarkers for Parkinson's Disease
Principal Investigator: Bowman, Dubois
Organization: Columbia University Health Sciences
Project Start Date: Jan. 1, 2014
Project End Date: Aug 31, 2016
Funding Institute: NINDS
FY Total Cost: $295,098


Project Title: Computational Design of Specific Binding Proteins Using Leave-one Out
Principal Investigator: Bystroff, Christopher
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Project Start Date: Sept. 20, 2012
Project End Date: July 31, 2017
Funding Institute: NIGMS
FY Total Cost: $317,161


Project Title: The Cancer Genome Atlas Data Analysis Center
Principal Investigator: Chin, Lynda
Organization: Broad Institute
Project Start Date: Sept. 29, 2009
Project End Date: July 31, 2015
Funding Institute: NCI
FY Total Cost: $1,100,000


Project Title: Proteolysis In Silico: Statistics, Structural Chemistry, and Biology
Principal Investigator: Cieplak, Piotr
Organization: Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute
Project Start Date: Sept. 30, 2011
Project End Date: Aug. 31, 2015
Funding Institute: NIGMS
FY Total Cost: $370,500


Project Title: Pharmacokinetic/Pharmacodynamic Systems Modeling and Analysis
Principal Investigator: D'Argenio, David
Organization: University of Southern California
Project Start Date: N/A
Project End Date: N/A
Funding Institute: NIBIB
FY Total Cost: $217,363


Project Title: Structural Bioinformatics Software for Epitope Selection and Antibody Engineering
Principal Investigator: Darnell, Steven Joseph
Organization: DNAStar
Project Start Date: May 15, 2012
Project End Date: June 30, 2016
Funding Institute: NIGMS
FY Total Cost: $746,428


Project Title: Association Analysis Software for Mining Clinical Next-gen Sequencing Data
Principal Investigator: Durfee, Timothy
Organization: DNAStar
Project Start Date: Sept. 25, 2012
Project End Date: June 30, 2015
Funding Institute: NHGRI
FY Total Cost: $477,977


Project Title: Integrated Chemoselective and Informatic Platform for Large-scale Metabolomics
Principal Investigator: Fan, Teresa Whei-Mei
Organization: University of Kentucky
Project Start Date: April 26, 2014
Project End Date: Aug. 31, 2017
Funding Institute: NIEHS
FY Total Cost: $443,605


Project Title: An Open Resource to Advance Computer-aided Drug Design
Principal Investigator: Feher, Victoria Ann
Organization: University of California, San Diego
Project Start Date: Sept. 15, 2014
Project End Date: Aug. 31, 2019
Funding Institute: NIGMS
FY Total Cost: $728,423


Project Title: Protein Sequencing Tools for Biological Therapeutics
Principal Investigator: Fenyo, David
Organization: Protein Metrics
Project Start Date: Sept. 3, 2012
Project End Date: Aug. 31, 2015
Funding Institute: NIGMS
FY Total Cost: $108,846


Project Title: Computational Methods for Structural-Functional Studies of Protein
Principal Investigator: Grishin, Nick
Organization: UT Southwestern Medical Center
Project Start Date: July 1, 2010
Project End Date: Aug. 31, 2018
Funding Institute: NIGMS
FY Total Cost: $288,292


Project Title: Statistical ICA Methods for Analysis and Integration of Multi-Dimensional Data
Principal Investigator: Guo, Ying
Organization: Emory University
Project Start Date: Sept. 25, 2014
Project End Date: July 31, 2018
Funding Institute: NIMH
FY Total Cost: $383,210


Project Title: Genomic Resource Grant for PhenX Toolkit
Principal Investigator: Hamilton, Carol
Organization: Research Triangle Institute
Project Start Date: July 1, 2013
Project End Date: April 30, 2017
Funding Institute: NHGRI
FY Total Cost: $528,723


Project Title: An Ontology for Microbial Phenotypes
Principal Investigator: Hu, James
Organization: Texas A&M Agrilife Research
Project Start Date: April 1, 2010
Project End Date: June 30, 2017
Funding Institute: NIGMS
FY Total Cost: $297,305


Project Title: Computational and Biological Deconvolution of Epigenomic Datasets
Principal Investigator: Ince, Tan
Organization: University of Miami School of Medicine
Project Start Date: Sept. 24, 2014
Project End Date: Sept. 18, 2015
Funding Institute: NIEHS
FY Total Cost: $323,241


Project Title: Preprocessing and Analysis Tools for Contemporary Microarray Applications
Principal Investigator: Irizarry, Rafael Angel
Organization: Dana Farber Cancer Institute
Project Start Date: Sept. 24, 2007
Project End Date: Aug. 31, 2016
Funding Institute: NIGMS
FY Total Cost: $254,492


Project Title: Integrative Analyses of Reference Epigenomic Maps and Applications
Principal Investigator: Johnson, William Evan
Organization: Boston University Medical Campus
Project Start Date: Sept. 18, 2014
Project End Date: Aug. 31, 2016
Funding Institute: NIEHS
FY Total Cost: $337,445


Project Title: The UCSC Genome Browser
Principal Investigator: Kent, William James
Organization: University Of California, Santa Cruz
Project Start Date: July 12, 2001
Project End Date: June 30, 2017
Funding Institute: NHGRI
FY Total Cost: $292,515


Project Title: Integrating Epigenomic Maps to Predict Regulatory Functions of Genetic Variants
Principal Investigator: Liu, Chunyu
Organization: University Of Illinois, Chicago
Project Start Date: Sept. 10, 2014
Project End Date: Aug. 31, 2016
Funding Institute: NIEHS
FY Total Cost: $325,984


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