Call for Proposals for Establishment of Bioinformatics & Computational Biology Centers Under BIO-...

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The Department of Biotechnology (DBT), Ministry of Science & Technology, Government of India, invites proposals from eligible universities, academic insitutes, research organizations and medical/agricultural institutions for the establishment or up-gradation of Bioinformatics Centers under BIO-GRID to support advanced research and training in life sciences, biotechnology and health.

Qualification

Any Indian National holding a regular position in any Indian academic and scientific research institutions (Govt./Private) may apply. This call for proposal is open to all applicants eligible for Govt. funding. The research institutions must be recognized by DSIR as a Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (SIRO).
Private institutions/NGOs should have proof of registration at ‘NGO DARPAN’ of NITI Aayog (http://ngodarpan.gov.in/), Certificate of registration under Society Registration Act, Organization’s Memorandum of Association, Organization’s Articles of Association, Valid DSIR-SIRO certificate/DSIR in-house R&D recognition certificate (as applicable), and Duly audited account statements for the past three successive years.
There should be at least one co-investigator from each participating institute and either one of the PI or Co-PI should have remaining service in co-terminus to the duration of the project.
Use of free and open source Software is preferred and encouraged to for training and executing the project and to ensure usability of the data to the research community at large
Plan of long-term sustainability need to be presented in the proposal.
It is mandatory to submit all data to IBDC hence a data sharing plan has to be submitted along with the proposal. Proposal without data sharing plan will not be accepted.
The extant provisions/rules of funding as applicable to extramural projects funded by the Department shall also apply to the proposals/projects received under this call.

To Apply

Interested investigators should submit proposals online only through DBT ‘eProMIS’ portal (https://dbtepromis.nic.in) under the Programme area BTIS-Network. The proposals which are not submitted through DBT eProMIS portal will not be considered further.

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Money

The Department envisages grants-in-aid support to ambitious and focused Projects of up to 5 years duration. The budgetary requirement per project shall not exceed ₹ 5.00 Cr
Non-Recurring Budget should not be more than 30% of the total proposed cost and should mainly include compute and storage infrastructure-related budget.
Grant Components:

GIA-Capital (Non-Recurring Budget): Equipment & Other Accessories
GIA-General (Recurring Budget): Manpower (as per Govt. of India guidelines),

Consumables, Training and Workshop, Contingencies, Travel (Domestic only) Others (if any with proper justification) & Overheads as per DBT guidelines.

Grants-in-aid support to the components of the proposal which are PRIVATE R&D institutions (including private universities and Not-for-profit NGO(s)/ VO(s)/ Trust(s)/ Research foundations) shall be up to INR 2.5 Cr. and it should be in alignment with the justification offered for the proposed cost by such partner(s). Grants to profit making institutions will be limited to only Rs.50
lakh. Remaining amounts may be arranged by the profit making institutions themselves.
In case the existing Bioinformatics Centers projects are successfully selected through this call, the funding support under the existing Bioinformatics Center will CEASE from the day of issuing of 1^st release order for the project granted under this call. The center will process for Final Settlements of Accounts till the said date, before issuance of subsequent grant. Existing NNP projects may continue as per their tenure.
At a given time, an Institute cannot implement two Bioinformatics Centers. Hence, a written declaration of the Executive Authority of the Institute is mandatory regarding the closure of previous Bioinformatics Center project (irrespective of the Project coordinator) in the Institute. This will a mandatory requirement while submission of financial documents.

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