Presidential Young Investigator Award

总统青年研究员奖

• 批准号: 8957026
• 负责人: Gary Olsen
• 金额: $ 11.76万
• 依托单位: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 1989
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1989-08-01 至 1996-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=8957026&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Presidential; Young; Investigator; Award

This Presidential Young Investigator award provides funds for studies at the forefront of the application of computers to the analysis and interpretation of nucleotide sequence data. Dr. Olsen and his colleagues have already made significant strides in the application of modern molecular techniques to research aimed at answering types of biological questions first posed at the time of Charles Darwin. Through collaborations with scientists at his own institution and elsewhere, Dr. Olsen will play an important role in devising new algorithms that exploit basic chemical and genetic principles to increase the rigor of this type of analysis; he will also apply these methods to related problems in the use of nucleotide sequence data for the prediction of tertiary structure of nucleic acids and, possibly, that of proteins as well.

该总统青年研究员奖为应用计算机分析和解释核苷酸序列数据的前沿研究提供资金。 奥尔森博士和他的同事在将现代分子技术应用于旨在回答查尔斯·达尔文时代首次提出的生物学问题的研究方面已经取得了重大进展。 通过与他所在机构和其他地方的科学家合作，奥尔森博士将在设计新算法方面发挥重要作用，这些算法利用基本化学和遗传学原理来提高此类分析的严谨性；他还将应用这些方法来解决使用核苷酸序列数据来预测核酸三级结构以及可能还预测蛋白质三级结构的相关问题。