The centers, part of the National Institutes of Health Roadmap for Medical Research, were funded in September 2004. They are supported by 5-year grants projected to total more than $79.7 million ($15.7 million the first year). The National Centers for Biomedical Computing are the key programmatic initiative of the NIH Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Roadmap: http://nihroadmap.nih.gov/bioinformatics/index.asp. The full version of the news announcement is available at http://www.nigms.nih.gov/news/ncbc.html.

The implementation team for the NIH Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Roadmap is given at http://nihroadmap.nih.gov/bioinformatics/members.asp.

JUST ANNOUNCED: Funding announcement for the second round of National Centers for Biomedical Computing: http://grants1.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-RM-04-022.html. Application Receipt Date: January 24, 2005.

A Technical Assistance Workshop for this RFA will be held on Thursday, October 28, 2004 on the main campus of the NIH, the Natcher Conference Center, room Balcony B, from 2 - 3:30 p.m. If you are planning to attend in person, please contact Kevin Lauderdale at lauderdk@nigms.nih.gov. We encourage you to send any questions you would like to have addressed at the workshop to askncbc@mail.nih.gov. The event will also be webcast. To view the webcast, go to http://videocast.nih.gov on that date and time and click on "Technical Assistance Workshop." The webcast will also be archived at that site and available under “PAST EVENTS” sometime on November 4th.

Watch this space for the following developments projected for early October, 2004: