Table 2 Grant opportunities for genomic software development
From: Challenges in funding and developing genomic software: roots and remedies
Title | Source | Country | Last call | Funding rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Bioinformatics and Computational Biology | Genome Canada | Canada | 2017 | CAD$12 M |
Cyberinfrastructure Initiative | Canada Foundation for Innovation | Canada | 2017 | ~ CAD$10 M |
Research Software Program | CANARIE | Canada | Open | CAD$4.5 M |
ELIXIR Tools Platform | ELIXIR | (Europe) | Open | NA |
Call for Challenges and Unlocking of Technological and Scientific Barriers | Institut Français de Bioinformatique (IFB) | France | Open | NA |
Accelerating Scientific Discovery | Netherlands eScience | Netherlands | 2018 | ~€1 M |
Bioinformatics and Biological Resources Fund | BBSRC | UK | 2017 | Up to £6 M |
Transformative Research Technologies | BBSRC, EPSRC, MRC | UK | 2017 | Up to £3.5 M |
Collaborative Computational Tools for the Human Cell Atlas | Chan-Zuckerberg Initiative | USA | 2017 | $15 M |
Continued Development and Maintenance of Software | NIH | USA | 2014 | NA |
Cyberinfrastructure for Sustained Scientific Innovation | NSF (spans Directorates) | USA | Open | $46.5 M |
Data-Driven Discovery Investigator Competition | Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation | USA | 2014 | $22.5 M |
Extended Development, Hardening & Dissemination of Technologies in Biomedical Computing, Informatics & Big Data Science | NIH | USA | 2014 | NA |
Informatics Technology for Cancer Research | NCI/NIH | USA | 2018 | NA |
Infrastructure Capacity for Biology | NSF Division of Biological Infrastructure (DBI) | USA | Open | $40 M |
Innovation in Cancer Informatics | Fund for Innovation in Cancer Informatics | USA | Open | ~ $1 M |
Investigator Initiated Research in Computational Genomics and Data Science | NHGRI/NIH | USA | Open | NA |
BBSRC-NSF/BIO Lead Agency Opportunity in Bioinformatics and Synthetic Biology | NSF Directorate for Biological Sciences (NSF/BIO), BBSRC | USA/UK | 2018 | NA |