Grant: Engage Grants Program
University of Ontario Institute of Technology
$24,970.00
Cloud processing for comparative crop genomics
FY 2016-17
Summary
The focus of this project is to investigate new methods for scalable comparative genomics. Specifically, weplan to explore the use of stream processing, parallel processing, caching, and multi-core computations tospeed up, and automate, the identification of causative mutations by comparing reference and mutantsequences. This project is done in collaboration with Frontier Agri-Science Inc., a small Canadian agriculturalbiotechnology company that aims to create novel germplasm with a variety of attributes using traditionalgenetic techniques-isolating causative mutation in plants identified as having useful phenotypes. This requiresaccess to computational tools that can quickly process and visualize genomic data with the aim of high-lightingdifferences in two or more sequences in the regions of interest. As a top agricultural producer, Canada has avested interest in leading innovation in plant science, including computational tools and methods for plantsciences. This project represents an important effort to develop a technology that can lead to new plantvarieties. Such varieties are need to meet our ever increasing demands for food, bio-based fuel, etc.
Program
Engage Grants Program
Location
Ontario, Canada
Recipient Type
Academia
Type
Grant
Source
NSERC's Awards Data
As published
Application id
507497-2016
Name nom
Qureshi, Faisal
Department département
Science, Faculty of
Organization id
19222
Institution établissement
University of Ontario Institute of Technology
Province en
Ontario
Province fr
Ontario
Country en
CANADA
Country fr
CANADA
Fiscal year exercice financier
2016
Competition year année de concours
2016
Award amount
24970
Program id
EGP
Program name en
Engage Grants Program
Program name fr
Programme de subventions d'engagement partenariat
Group en
Research partnerships programs
Group fr
Programmes de partenariat
Committee code
1553
Committee name en
Ontario Internal Decision Committee
Committee name fr
Comité de décision interne pour l'Ontario
Area of application code
801
Area of application group en
Information and communication services
Area of application group fr
Services d'information et de télécommunications
Area of application en
Computer software
Area of application fr
Logiciel
Research subject code
2710
Research subject group en
Information technology
Research subject group fr
Technologie de l'information
Research subject en
Information systems design
Research subject fr
Conception de systèmes d'information
Partie
1
Nb partie
1
Application title
Cloud processing for comparative crop genomics
Keyword
NSERC
Application summary
The focus of this project is to investigate new methods for scalable comparative genomics. Specifically, weplan to explore the use of stream processing, parallel processing, caching, and multi-core computations tospeed up, and automate, the identification of causative mutations by comparing reference and mutantsequences. This project is done in collaboration with Frontier Agri-Science Inc., a small Canadian agriculturalbiotechnology company that aims to create novel germplasm with a variety of attributes using traditionalgenetic techniques-isolating causative mutation in plants identified as having useful phenotypes. This requiresaccess to computational tools that can quickly process and visualize genomic data with the aim of high-lightingdifferences in two or more sequences in the regions of interest. As a top agricultural producer, Canada has avested interest in leading innovation in plant science, including computational tools and methods for plantsciences. This project represents an important effort to develop a technology that can lead to new plantvarieties. Such varieties are need to meet our ever increasing demands for food, bio-based fuel, etc.
