At a glance
This program funds highly innovative research in computational genomics, including new data science, statistics, bioinformatics, machine learning, privacy-preserving methods, and scalable tools for genomics. Eligible applicants include a wide range of U.S. and non-U.S. organizations, including nonprofits, universities, governments, small businesses, and foreign organizations, and foreign components of U.S. organizations are allowed. Awards are for up to 2 years, with no more than $275,000 in total direct costs over the project period and no more than $200,000 in any single year. No cost sharing is required, and clinical trials are not allowed. The announcement says work focused on microbial genomics, existing genomic resources or knowledgebases, ontologies or manual curation, and research that is not broadly generalizable will not be reviewed.
What it funds
Official description from grants.gov
The purpose of this funding opportunity announcement (FOA) is to invite applications for a broad range of research efforts in computational genomics, data science, statistics, and bioinformatics relevant to one or both of basic or clinical genomic science, and broadly applicable to human health and disease. This FOA supports fundamental genomics research developing innovative analytical methodologies and approaches, early-stage development of tools and software, and refinement or hardening of software and tools of high value to the biomedical genomics community. Work supported under this FOA should be enabling for genomics and be generalizable or broadly applicable across diseases and biological systems. All applications should address how the methods would scale to address increasingly larger data sets.
Who can apply
- City or township governments
- County governments
- For-profit organizations other than small businesses
- Independent school districts
- Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized)
- Native American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized)
- Nonprofits with 501(c)(3) status (other than higher education)
- Nonprofits without 501(c)(3) status (other than higher education)
- Others
- Private institutions of higher education
- Public and State controlled institutions of higher education
- Public housing authorities / Indian housing authorities
- Small businesses
- Special district governments
- State governments