Funding, News and Announcements

Genome Canada, in partnership with the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), is seeking proposals for research projects to address any aspect of bioinformatics and computational biology (B/CB) as it relates to genomics. Proposals with applications across all of Genome Canada’s sectors are welcome. These include agriculture & agri-food, fisheries & aquaculture, forestry, energy, environment, human health and mining.

The major objectives of this RFA are to:
1. Support the development of next generation Bioinformatics and Computational Biology tools and methodologies that will be required by the research community to deal with the influx of large amounts of data produced by modern genomics technologies; and,
2. Provide broad access of these new Bioinformatics and Computational Biology tools to the research community.

CIHR is partnering on this Request for Applications (RFA) in support of proposals in the area of human health because it recognizes that application of current technologies in genomics would create health-related data sets of unprecedented size and complexity, such that advanced computational tools are required for their analysis.

Applicants are required to apply for funding through their regional Genome Centre. The Request for Applications can be found here. For more information, please contact Genome Atlantic at info@genomeatlantic.ca.

Deadline to register with Genome Atlantic: December 4, 2015