NSF Student Travel Grant for 2018 International Workshop on String Algorithms in Bioinformatics (StringBio)

NSF 学生旅费资助 2018 年生物信息学字符串算法国际研讨会 (StringBio)

• 批准号: 1849136
• 负责人: Sharma Thankachan
• 金额: $ 2万
• 依托单位: The University of Central Florida Board of Trustees
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2018-10-01 至 2019-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1849136&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: NSF; Student; Travel; Grant; 2018

The emerging string analytics problems from bioinformatics introduce new theoretical challenges and necessitate researchers to re-engineer already well-established solutions to cope with big data issues. Consequently, string matching algorithms and related data structures are gaining an ever-increasing interest as they form the backbone of many current genomic data processing tools. This project supports primarily undergraduate student attendance at a workshop focused solely on string matching algorithms in bioinformatics (StringBio). The workshop primarily aims to gather researchers, practitioners, and students with a different format that is composed of short tutorials and research talks. The travel award will provide partial support to 15-20 students, with preference to students from under-represented groups in order to inspire these participants to pursue higher studies not only in Bioinformatics and related interdisciplinary areas, but also in algorithms, data structures, and their applications in the newly emerging trends of big data. The concise tutorials to be given by experienced researchers on foundations of string processing will cover related algorithms and data structures from standard to advanced levels. These tutorials aim to help students and computer science researchers who would like to make a quick start in bioinformatics challenges by addressing the basic building blocks and current state-of-the-art. Different from standard conference presentations of already achieved progress, the research talks by experts in StringBio will describe current and ongoing research studies to which, the attendees can join by expressing their interests and potentials. The talks are expected to provide an excellent opportunity, particularly for the beginners in the path to their research experience.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

生物信息学中新出现的字符串分析问题带来了新的理论挑战，迫使研究人员重新设计已经成熟的解决方案，以应对大数据问题。因此，字符串匹配算法和相关的数据结构越来越受到人们的关注，因为它们构成了许多当前基因组数据处理工具的支柱。该项目主要支持本科生参加一个专门关注生物信息学(StringBio)中的字符串匹配算法的研讨会。研讨会的主要目的是以一种不同的形式聚集研究人员、实践者和学生，这种形式由简短的教程和研究演讲组成。旅行奖将向15-20名学生提供部分支持，优先考虑来自代表性不足群体的学生，以激励这些参与者不仅在生物信息学和相关跨学科领域，而且在算法、数据结构及其在新出现的大数据趋势中的应用方面继续深造。这些简明的教程将由经验丰富的研究人员讲授字符串处理的基础，将涵盖从标准到高级的相关算法和数据结构。这些教程旨在帮助学生和计算机科学研究人员通过解决基本的构建块和当前的最新技术来快速开始生物信息学挑战。与已经取得的进展的标准会议报告不同，StringBio的专家的研究演讲将描述当前和正在进行的研究，与会者可以通过表达他们的兴趣和潜力来加入。这些讲座预计将提供一个极好的机会，特别是对于初学者来说，他们的研究经验。这一奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并已被认为值得支持，通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估。