The National Science Foundation (NSF), Directorate for Biological Sciences has released a program solicitation for Advances in Biological Informatics (ABI). The program encourages the development of new informatics tools to analyze and disseminate biological data for the benefit of the scientific community and the public.

"The ABI program accepts three major types of proposals: Innovation awards that seek to pioneer new approaches to the application of informatics to biological problems, Development awards that seek to provide robust cyberinfrastructure that will enable transformative biological research, and Sustaining awards that seek to support ongoing operations and maintenance of existing cyberinfrastructure that is critical for continued advancement of priority biological research.”

For additional information, please see the program solicitation.

Recent awards made through this program.

Award Information

• Expected Number of Awards: 20 to 30
• Estimated Total Program Funding: $12,000,000 to $14,000,000

Full proposals due: September 10, 2012