Support for the Research Resource Facilities Group

该奖项将为一个由六名科学家组成的小组提供资金，他们负责管理微型化学设施，为本机构和其他机构的大量研究人员提供服务。这笔资金将用于在这些设施和许多类似设施获得和分发一种可用于测量蛋白质测序程序的敏感性和准确性的合成肽，并加强这些设施之间的合作和联系。该项目的总体目标是提高设施提供的服务质量。利用微量化学技术对蛋白质和DNA进行测序和合成，在现代生物学中占据着重要的地位。由于需要对设备和人员进行大量投资，这类工作通常在为一大批调查人员提供服务的中央设施中进行。美国目前有近百家这样的设施。这一奖项将有助于确保每个设施提供的服务具有统一的高质量，并与蛋白质测序方面的最新水平保持一致。

This award will provide funds to a group of six scientists who direct microchemical facilities that serve large numbers of investigators at their own and other institutions. The funds will be used to obtain and distribute a synthetic peptide useful for measuring the sensitivity and accuracy of protein sequencing procedures at these and many similar facilities, and to increase cooperation and contact between such facilities. The overall aim of the project is to increase the quality of service provided by the facilities. The use of microchemical techniques for the sequencing and synthesis of protein and DNA now occupies an important role in modern biology. Because of the substantial investment in equipment and personnel required, such work is most often performed in central facilities that serve a large group of investigators. There are now nearly a hundred such facilities in the U.S. This award will help insure that the service provided by each is of a uniform high quality and is consistent with the state of the art in protein sequencing.