DARPAtv | DUF - Discovering Unknome Function - Advanced Research Concept @DARPAtv | Uploaded March 2024 | Updated October 2024, 2 days ago.
The search for The Great Unknome: Annotating large swaths of uncharacterized genes in fully sequenced genomes (i.e., the Unknome) is perhaps the last remaining grand challenge connected to sequencing. Structural annotation has advanced but functional has not. We have released an international call for abstracts with the goal of soliciting a large number of innovative ideas to tackle the ‘Unknome’ and launch biotechnology into a new era.
Discovering Unknome Function (DUF) is part of our Advanced Research Concepts (ARC) initiative, which makes targeted, limited scope investments to rapidly explore promising ideas that could result in new, game-changing technologies for national security (www.darpa.mil/ARC/DUF). DUF ARC funding is available to U.S. and non-U.S. organizations doing research on any cell, virus, or cell-free system to generate high-throughput high-confidence (non)coding gene function annotations.
DUF abstracts are due by April 5, 2024; any abstract not selected can be revised using given feedback and resubmitted before this deadline, so submit your abstract early.
To learn more about DUF and other open ARC topics visit: www.DARPA.mil/arc
The search for The Great Unknome: Annotating large swaths of uncharacterized genes in fully sequenced genomes (i.e., the Unknome) is perhaps the last remaining grand challenge connected to sequencing. Structural annotation has advanced but functional has not. We have released an international call for abstracts with the goal of soliciting a large number of innovative ideas to tackle the ‘Unknome’ and launch biotechnology into a new era.
Discovering Unknome Function (DUF) is part of our Advanced Research Concepts (ARC) initiative, which makes targeted, limited scope investments to rapidly explore promising ideas that could result in new, game-changing technologies for national security (www.darpa.mil/ARC/DUF). DUF ARC funding is available to U.S. and non-U.S. organizations doing research on any cell, virus, or cell-free system to generate high-throughput high-confidence (non)coding gene function annotations.
DUF abstracts are due by April 5, 2024; any abstract not selected can be revised using given feedback and resubmitted before this deadline, so submit your abstract early.
To learn more about DUF and other open ARC topics visit: www.DARPA.mil/arc
