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NEW YORK, Feb. 14 - The US National Science Foundation is offering $8 million in grants for bioinformatics research through its Biological Databases and Informatics program.

The program, a cross-disciplinary effort backed by the Directorate for Biological Sciences, is designed to help design, develop, and implement new information tools, the NSF said.

The foundation plans to award about 25 new grants for up to five years apiece that are worth between $50,000 to $500,000 a year. The program is described in further detail in an announcement released yesterday by the NSF.

See http://www.nsf.gov/home/bio/ for details.