2010 Project

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2010 Project: The Directorate for Biological Sciences (BIO) of the National Science Foundation (NSF) announces its intention to continue support of research to determine the functions of all genes in the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana by the year 2010. Individual investigators or groups of investigators will be supported to conduct creative and innovative, genome-wide or systems-level research designed to determine, using all available means, the functions of Arabidopsis genes. This year, as in FY 2006, the Program will focus on: (1) projects that include genome-wide analyses for benchmarking the function of all genes in the genome; (2) projects that will develop experimental and computational methods, tools, and resources for enabling a broad community of scientists to conduct functional genomics research on Arabidopsis; and (3) research on exemplary networks that use high throughput methods and integrate modeling with experimental data to understand the gene circuitry underlying basic plant processes. Proposals submitted in response to this solicitation will be reviewed jointly with proposals submitted to the Arabidopsis Functional Genomics Network Program (AFGN) that is supported by the German agency, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG). Both NSF and DFG encourage, but do not require, submission of joint research proposals when German and US scientists are collaborating on a project. Special instructions are provided in the body of the solicitation for submitting joint research proposals.