<html><head></head><body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#4c4c4c" link="#f07746" vlink="#f07746"><div>Hi Tony (& All).</div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>There are some US-UK funding opportunities for NSF (US) and BIO-UK BBSRC (UK) specifically for bioinformatics. We might check into these and maybe generate a large project grant between several PIs to hire programmers/maintainers?</div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>URL: <a href="https://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=130555">https://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=130555</a></div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>What does everyone think?</div><div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div><span>-- <br><div>_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________</div><div>Andor J Kiss, PhD</div><div>Director - Center for Bioinformatics & Functional Genomics</div><div>086 Pearson Hall - Miami University</div><div>700 East High Street, Oxford, Ohio 45056</div><div>USA</div><div><br></div><div>eMAIL: <a href="mailto:KissAJ@MiamiOH.edu">KissAJ@MiamiOH.edu</a> </div><div>Telephone: +1-513-529-4280</div><div>Fax: +1-513-529-2431</div><div><br></div><div>URL (CBFG): <font color="#f07746"><a href="http://miamioh.edu/cas/academics/centers/cbfg/">http://miamioh.edu/cas/academics/centers/cbfg/</a> </font></div><div>URL (CBFG Services): <font color="#f07746"><a href="https://www.scienceexchange.com/labs/center-for-bioinformatics-functional-genomics">https://www.scienceexchange.com/labs/center-for-bioinformatics-functional-genomics</a></font></div><div>URL (Research): <font color="#f07746"><a href="http://openwetware.org/wiki/User:Andor_J_Kiss">http://openwetware.org/wiki/User:Andor_J_Kiss</a> </font></div></span></div><div><br></div><div>On Sun, 2017-02-19 at 12:29 +0000, Tony Travis wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite"><pre>On 18/02/17 17:11, Andreas Leimbach wrote:
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Hi Tony,
thanks a lot for your efforts for keeping BioLinux alive! It's a
fantastic project, although Bioconda, linuxbrew etc. are becoming more
and more interesting alternatives for certain applications.
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Hi, Andreas.
For anyone who doesn't already know, "Bioconda" is a meta-package
manager for bioinformatics applications:
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<a href="https://bioconda.github.io/">https://bioconda.github.io/</a>
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Similarly, "LinuxBrew" is a port of the Mac OS "Homebrew" non-Apple
crowd-funded package manager that is also supported by "Bioconda".
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<a href="http://linuxbrew.sh/">http://linuxbrew.sh/</a>
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I've looked at both of these and what bothers me most is the extra
responsibility placed on biologists to make use of these systems.
The USP of Bio-Linux is that it's a complete bioinformatics workstation
platform that biologists with little or no prior experience of system
administration can make use of to learn how to do bioinformatics.
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Sadly, I'm not that knowledgeable in funding, but for me BioLinux
definitely falls under the topic Open Science (OS). Thus, there might be
money to support dev in the current OS environment of funding agencies.
What about EU projects like Horizon 2020 that support OS?
<a href="https://ec.europa.eu/research/openscience/index.cfm">https://ec.europa.eu/research/openscience/index.cfm</a>
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Brexit has put an end to all that... :-(
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How is Debian Med funded?
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It's part of Debian - A Debian 'blend' supported by volunteers.
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Maybe the OKFN (<a href="https://science.okfn.org/">https://science.okfn.org/</a>) or Mozilla Science Lab
(<a href="https://science.mozilla.org/">https://science.mozilla.org/</a>) have ideas how to tap funding agencies?
They should have mailing lists for asking such a question. After all
BioLinux is definitely mostly used by university affiliated researchers.
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In fact, Bio-Linux was funded specifically by EOS/NERC to support NERC
grant awardees but made publically available because NERC funding comes
from the UK taxpayer and anything it does is made publically available.
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Just my 2 cents ...
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Every cent counts :-)
Thanks for all your suggestions,
Tony.
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