Associate Professor Allyson Hindle (Life Sciences) is part of a team of scientists awarded an $18.4 million grant from the National Science Foundation for a project that will pave the way for the next generation of Antarctic research.
The project, titled “Genome Infrastructure Catalyzing Next Generation Antarctic Data, Access, Tools, and Analytics (GIGA DATA),” will produce an extensive database of genetic information. Led by Alison Murray of the Desert Research Institute, the project will sequence the genomes of more than 250 Antarctic species, along with other ecosystem samples, and unite the data with existing Antarctic sequencing efforts to create an AI-enabled cyberinfrastructure.
The resulting digital platform will be an open, accessible data science gateway to Antarctic life.
The project will train a next-generation workforce with vital skills in genomic data management, bioinformatics, machine learning, and computational engineering with broad relevance to science, medicine, and industry.
To learn more about the project see the release NSF Supports Groudbreaking Research Infrastructure to Sequence Antarctic Genomes from Microbes to Whales from the Desert Research Institute.
