Computer Science News

2009-09-04 00:40:49

Xia, other IUPUI Researchers Garner $1.4m NSF Grant

Xia, other IUPUI Researchers Garner $1.4m NSF Grant Dr. Yuni Xia, an Assistant Professor of Computer Science, has been awarded with two collaborators a three-year National Science Foundation grant in the amount of $1,425,995. The title of the grant is "DisProt Database: A Central Repository of Information on Intrinsically Disordered Proteins". The goal of this project is to fully develop DisProt, a database that provides an essential depository of information about intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) . DisProt will be not only a collection of data on IDPs and their functions, but also a unique research tool to conduct various computational studies on these proteins and to help design better research strategies for studying individual IDPs in laboratory. It's expected that DisProt will support a very wide-spread use, both for the purpose of carrying out bioinformatics experiments and for the entire community involved in understanding cell and molecular biology. Dr. Xia is a co-Principal Investigator on the project, along with Dr. Vladimir Uversky. Dr. A. Keith Dunker, a Professor in the Indiana University Schools of Medicine and Informatics, is serving as Principal Investigator on the project.