IU gets $1.5 million grant for a genome center

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — The National Science Foundation has awarded $1.5 million to Indiana University to create a center for supporting genome analysis that officials hope can help scientists discover new medicines, improve crops and understand diseases.

IU’s Science Community Tools director William Barnett says the university’s National Center for Genome Analysis Support will accelerate scientific discoveries.

Indiana’s partners in the project will be the Texas Advanced Computing Center at the University of Texas and the San Diego Supercomputer Center at the University of California San Diego. The IU center will support genome analysis software running on supercomputers at the Texas and California schools and other supercomputers.

The center at Indiana University in Bloomington will be staffed with three new positions.