SEATTLE, May 22 /PRNewswire/ -- The Canary Foundation and the LabKey
Software Foundation announced today the fifteen grant recipients of their
Bioinformatics Platform Dissemination Award. A total of $225,000 in grants
is being awarded to key labs around the world. The Canary Foundation and
this award advocate the continued development of common software platforms
for research on early cancer detection. Most of the funds awarded under
these grants will be used to customize and expand the CPAS proteomics
platform. CPAS, (Computational Proteomics Analysis System) is based on
LabKey Server and is freely available under a non-restrictive open source
license from the LabKey Software Foundation (http://www.labkey.org).
"The Canary Foundation takes a unique approach supporting research on
early cancer detection," said Don Listwin, founder, Canary Foundation. "We
know from experience in the commercial world that when all the key labs are
using and building on the same software platform, they can focus their
efforts on discovering biomarkers for cancer instead of reinventing the
wheel. And they can share and validate their findings without going through
a lot of hoops. We're betting that CPAS is going to be one of those
platforms, so we offered these grants as a way to accelerate that process."
The award committee received a higher than expected response to the
grant proposal and the proposed projects of a high caliber. "CPAS was
designed to make it easy for researchers to share their novel research
ideas by integrating them into a common software platform," said Dr. Martin
McIntosh, principal investigator at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research
Institute and chair of the award evaluation committee. "The number and
quality of applications we received shows that the research community is
highly motivated to share."
In the end, fifteen grants were awarded in two categories to the
following institutions:
Development Awards ($25,000)
Institute Principal Investigator
Institute for Systems Biology John Boyle
University of Washington, Dept. of Medicine and Jay Heinecke and David
School of Pharmacy Goodlett
D. R. Mani and Stephen
The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard Carr
British Columbia Cancer Research Center Ryan Brinkman
Indiana University, Purdue University and IUPUI Jake Chen
Installation Awards ($10,000)
Institute Principal Investigator
Functional Proteomics Center, KIST,
Korea Myeong-Hee Yu
University of Texas, MD Anderson
Cancer Center, Dept of
Bioinformatics and Computational
Biology Romesh Stanislaus
Barnett Institute, Northeastern Barry Karger and
University William Hancock
Vermont Genetics Network Proteomics Dwight Matthews
Facility, University of Vermont and Jeffrey Bond
Biomolecular Resource Center, UCSF Richard Niles
University of Essex, England Metodi Metodiev
University of British Columbia Chris Overall
Wright Laboratory, UC Davis Mike Wright
Protein Center, Memorial Sloane
Kettering Paul Tempst
Thomas Graeber
and James
UCLA, Graeber and Wohlschlegel Labs Wohlschlegel
Most of the award funds will be used for design, development,
integration and support services provided by LabKey Corporation
(http://www.labkey.com). All software developed under these grants will be
contributed to the open source project managed by the LabKey Software
Foundation.
CPAS is an open source proteomics data analysis and data management
platform. CPAS is the result of a collaboration lead by the Fred Hutchinson
Cancer Research Center, and included the Institute for Systems Biology, and
Beavis Bioinformatics. It includes a large number of proteomics data
processing tools, which are integrated by LabKey Server.
LabKey Server refers to the core architecture and platform used to
integrate and manage research data such as that generated by the proteomics
data analysis tools included in CPAS. In addition to CPAS, LabKey Server
also supports platform applications for managing flow cytometry experiments
and large observational studies. LabKey Server is updated regularly, with
version 2.1 expected by the end of this month.
CPAS and LabKey Server were developed through funding by the National
Cancer Institute, the Fred Hutchinson Center, and the Canary Foundation.
About LabKey Software Foundation
LabKey Software Foundation is an independent not-for-profit
organization, formed to own and manage the LabKey open source project and
its distribution. LabKey Software Foundation holds copyright to all source
code in the project and licenses it to third parties under terms of the
Apache Software License. The foundation is controlled by its members.
Members include developers from both for-profit and not-for-profit
institutes who integrate their work into the LabKey platform.
About LabKey Corporation
The LabKey Corporation was formed to provide professional development
and support services for LabKey Server and its associated platform
applications. LabKey platform applications are designed in collaboration
with scientific experts and developed using commercial-level software
practices. Labkey is located in Seattle, Wash.
For Additional Information
Web Site Contact
Canary Foundation http://www.canaryfoundation.org Sarah Hawley
sarah@canaryfoundation.org
415-412-2533
LabKey Software http://www.labkey.org Peter Hussey
Foundation peter@labkey.com
LabKey Corporation http://www.labkey.com 206-667-7193
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