Genome Canada is pleased to advise the research community of an upcoming funding opportunity – the 2017 Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (B/CB) Competition. This competition is anticipated to be formally launched in December 2017 with detailed Guidelines and application forms available at that time.
This funding opportunity will be aimed at supporting research projects to address any aspect of bioinformatics[1] and computational biology[2] (B/CB) as it relates to genomics[3] across all of Genome Canada’s sectors, i.e., human health, agriculture, aquaculture/fisheries, forestry, energy, mining and the environment.
The major objectives of this RFA are to:
- Support the development of next generation Bioinformatics and Computational Biology tools and methodologies that will be required to deal with the large amounts of data produced by modern genomics technologies, analyze and integrate complex data sets and to better understand the associated biology
- Provide broad and timely access of these Bioinformatics and Computational Biology tools to the research community.
The Competition will support proposals under two streams:
- Stream 1: proposals mainly impacting the human health sector
- Stream 2: proposals mainly impacting one or more of the other sectors, i.e., agriculture, aquaculture/fisheries, forestry, energy, mining and/or the environment