Expanding the Encyclopedia of DNA Elements in Human and Model Organisms

The National Institutes of Health, otherwise known as NIH, is a US agency operating inside the Department of Human Health and Services which is primarily in charge of bio-medical and health-related research studies.

NIH’s efforts are greatly concentrated on acquiring fresh information to help prevent, detect, diagnose and treat a great deal of diseases and disabilities, thereby paving the path towards uncovering new knowledge that will result in better health for everyone.

The National Institutes of Health, in cooperation with the National Human Genome Research Institute, has constituted a funding opportunity to aid the Expanding the Encyclopedia of DNA Elements in Human and Model Organisms project.

The Expanding the Encyclopedia of DNA Elements in Human and Model Organisms, often known as ENCODE, is a project that seeks to solicit applications or proposals containing scientific studies that aims to use high-throughout, cost-efficient strategies that would significantly extend resources to become complete catalogs such as feasible employing state-of-the-art technologies.

The project is actually dedicated to two major classes of functional elements, that is, the genes (both protein-coding and non-coding), their RNA transcripts, as well as their transcriptional regulatory regions. Which is why, the project also aims to receive applications that have the potential to continue the ENCODE project’s efforts to cultivate a rather comprehensive catalog of functional elements.

The Expanding the Encyclopedia of DNA Elements in Human and Model Organisms project was basically established to expand the existing catalog of functional elements, giving primary focus on human genome, secondary focus on mouse genome, and also a substantially reduced and much more scientifically restricted effort on the fly and worm genomes.

The successful proposals which will be chosen by the NIH will then have to engage in a single research network which will be a consolidation of the existing ENCODE research consortia.

The National Institutes of Health carries with it an allocated funding amounting to $23,000,000 to finance the The Expanding the Encyclopedia of DNA Elements in Human and Model Organisms project.

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Institutions or organizations will be eligible to make an application for the program as long as they are any of the following:

a) Higher Education Institutions, either public/state controlled or private

b) Profit and Nonprofit organizations such as small enterprises

c) local governments with the US and its territories and possessions

d) independent school districts

e) Public Housing Authorities/Indian Housing Authorities

f) Native American Tribal Organizations (aside from Federally recognized tribal governments)

g) Faith-based or Community-based Organizations

h) Regional Organizations

The Department of Health and Human Services, the principal agency funding the Expanding the Encyclopedia of DNA Elements in Human and Model Organisms project, is the country’s primary agency in charge of protecting the health of all Americans with the provision of necessary human services to all, especially to those who are least in a position of helping themselves.

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