Drosophila
Colleagues
The
Drosophila Board and FlyBase received the following announcement from NHGRI
– NIH. We felt that this
funding opportunity should be made generally known to the community. We have also installed the ENCODE white
paper on the Community White Papers page on FlyBase
(http://flybase.bio.indiana.edu/.data/docs/CommunityWhitePapers/).
Dear
Drosophila Board members,
The
National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) plans to initiate
a model organism ENCODE (modENCODE) Project that will try to identify all
of the sequence-based functional elements in the Caenorhabditis elegans and/or Drosophila melanogaster genomes. The project will
be run as a Research Network called the modENCODE Consortium which is supported
by two RFAs. The first RFA (RFA-HG-06-006; http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-HG-06-006.html)
solicits applications for a set of projects that will conduct experiments to
identify functional elements in the target genome(s) and the second RFA
(RFA-HG-06-007; http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-HG-06-007.html)
solicits applications to participate in the Research Network as a Data
Coordination Center. Both experimental and computational approaches will
be part of modENCODE and the project will be associated with, but separate
from, the human ENCODE (ENCyclopedia of DNA Elements) Project that was launched
by NHGRI in 2003. Questions about the modENCODE Project should be
directed to either Elise Feingold or Peter Good at ENCODE@mail.nih.gov
Regards,
Laura
Laura
Liefer
Scientific
Program Analyst
Z-Tech
Corporation
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Human Genome Research Institute,
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