| Tier 1 | Tier 2 | Tier 3 |
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Goal | Explore and analyze new areas of biology | Organize an appropriate area of biology | Aggregate across all biology, provide information infrastructures |
Main style of funding | Response-mode and strategic grants for specific key datasets | Strategic grants for an area of biology, with portions of response-mode grants for specific datasets | Infrastructure funds, coupled to portions of strategic grants for specific biological areas |
Time horizon of group | Grant-driven, 3-5 years | Strategic grant driven, 5-10 years | Infrastructure driven, 10-20 years |
Examples | Many response-mode laboratories in universities and academic institutions | Bioinformatics resource centers (BRCs), model organism databases | EBI (Ensembl, Ensembl Genomes), NCBI (RefSeq) |