The Norwegian eScience programme eVITA running from 2007-2012 is a research and infrastructure programme designed to address computing- and data-intensive challenges in science, technology and medicine. By promoting research on methodologies, competence development and investment in new eInfrastructure, eVITA will work to ensure that Norwegian research in the eSciences achieves a high international standing, and seek to address important national challenges in the national priority areas of energy and the environment, oceans, food, and health. This will give a solid boost to the natural sciences in direct response to the main structural and thematic priorities described in Commitment to Research. Mathematics, informatics and statistics, – all disciplines that focus on methodologies – together with a selection of scientific and industrial applications, comprise the main body of the programme’s research component.”
CIGENE is responsible for one of the four large projects awarded under this programme. The project "Bridging the gap: disclosure, understanding and exploitation of the genotype-phenotype map", is divided into three interconnected work packages. They involve development of new theory, models and methods, and they will contribute to the development of an eInfrastructure customized to meet the demands of serious systems biology research in terms of computational resources, data-storage resources, and software solutions:
Work package 1: Computational environment for detection of potentially causative genes underlying complex traits
Work package 2: Bridging the genotype-advanced synthetic phenotype gap
Work package 3: Pioneer the establishment and exploitation of the genotype-phenotype map in yeast as a model system for genetics theory development
The eVITA grant also ensures priority access to the Norwegian metacenter for computational science and associated high-performance supercomputer resources.
