Infrastructure Innovation for Biological Research
Funds new or radically improved research tools and methods for biology — bioinformatics, instrumentation and research methods.
This programme pays for the tools rather than the discoveries. It funds the design of new or greatly improved research infrastructure that advances contemporary biology in any area NSF's Biological Sciences directorate supports.
Three programmatic areas divide it: bioinformatics, instrumentation, and research methods. What they have in common is that the result should improve researchers' ability…
Designing novel or greatly improved research tools and methods for biology across three areas — bioinformatics, instrumentation and research methods — by developing new infrastructure, significantly redesigning existing infrastructure, or adapting it in novel ways.
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