Infrastructure Capacity for Biological Research
Funds scaling up biology's shared infrastructure — cyberinfrastructure, biological collections, and field stations and marine laboratories.
Where the companion Innovation programme designs new research infrastructure, this one builds capacity in what already works. It funds implementation, scaling, or major improvement of research tools, products and services that advance contemporary biology in any area NSF's Biological Sciences directorate supports.
Three programmatic areas divide it: cyberinfrastructure, biological collections, an…
Implementing, scaling or substantially improving shared biological research infrastructure across three areas — cyberinfrastructure, biological collections, and biological field stations and marine laboratories — plus planning activities and workshops that coordinate a community's infrastructure needs.
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