EXTRAMURAL RESEARCH FACILITIES CONSTRUCTION

这项提案寻求配套资金，以翻新适合容纳 研究、研究培训和研究支持活动 最近成立的宾夕法尼亚大学生物信息学中心 医学院的地理位置。该中心是联合 由医学院(SOM)、工程学院和应用学院赞助 理科(SEA)和文理(SAS)。尊敬的G.克里斯蒂安·奥弗顿博士， 董事、联席董事Susan Davidson和教育部门Warren Ewens 主任，为中心提供科学的领导。《中心》 设施占地一层半(约12000净平方米 -一座SOM建筑-由高品质的 研究计算机实验室，高速远程/数据网络，小型 分组/会议室、带工作站的开放式机架、研讨会房间 最多可容纳50人，还有一个小型图书馆。该设施的用户将 在中心有主要研究空间的教职员工和 中心有二级研究空间的教职员工和主要研究人员 在他们的国内部门的空间。研究生和研究生以及 从事生物信息学跨学科项目的研究人员 将被安置在该设施内，以及 中心。该设施还将作为生物医学的资源 全校科研人员需要高水平的 生物信息学支持。拟议的设施解决了该中心的 计算中对适合研究活动的空间的要求 该大学目前缺乏的生物科学。

This proposal seeks matching funds to renovate space suitable to house the research, research training and research support activities of the recently established Penn Center for Bioinformatics in a consolidated physical location at the School of Medicine. The Center is jointly sponsored by the Schools of Medicine (SOM), Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), and Arts and Sciences (SAS). Drs. G. Christian Overton, Director, Susan Davidson, Co-Director, and Warren Ewens, Educational Director, provide the scientific leadership for the Center. The Center facility will occupy one and half floors (approximately 12000 net square feet) of Blockley Hall---an SOM building---and consist of high-quality research computer laboratories, a high-speed tele/data network, small breakout/meeting rooms, open carrels with workstations, a seminar room seating up to 50 people, and a small library. Users of the facility will be divided between faculty with primary research space in the Center and faculty with secondary research space in the Center and primary research space in their home departments. Graduate and post-graduate students and research staff working on interdisciplinary projects in bioinformatics will be housed within the facility, as well as the administrative staff of the Center. The facility will also serve as a resource for biomedical researchers throughout the University who have need of high-level bioinformatics support. The proposed facility addresses the Center's requirement for space suitable for research activities in computational biosciences that are currently lacking at the University.