• Release/Posted Date: October 18, 2007
• Letter of Intent Receipt Date: November 17, 2007
• Application Receipt Date(s): January 17, 2008; May 21, 2008; September 22, 2008; January 22, 2009; May 22, 2009; September 22, 2009; January 22, 2010; May 21, 2010; September 22, 2010
• NCI Contact: Jennifer Couch, Ph.D.; Tel. 301-435-5226; E-mail: couchj@mail.nih.gov
• Expiration Date: September 23, 2010

This Funding Opportunity Announcement is aimed at satisfying one of the needs created by the parallel achievements and increased interdependence of the biological and computing sciences. This interdependence offers an unprecedented opportunity for sophisticated approaches to computer-enabled research in the biological, clinical, and behavioral sciences. The purpose of this program announcement is to assure the availability and continued usefulness of existing biomedical informatics/computational biology software. This program announcement is meant for existing software that serves a biological, clinical, or behavioral community of users. Applications under this program announcement can seek support to improve the existing software in several different ways listed below. Any of these improvements should benefit the existing user community and/or have high potential for attracting significantly more users.

See full description in NIH Guide: PAR-08-010