Name:
Data Analysis Tools for Researchers and Students
FiscalYear:
2015
Audience:
Science, College of
Submitter:
Lasala, Jacob
Budget Manager:
Blanchard, Dominique
Project Manager:
Lasala, Jacob Andrew
Dept. Chair:
Murphey, Rodney K.
Local IT:
N/A
Dean:
Blanks, Janet
Facilities:
N/A
OIT:
Bagdonas, Joseph A.
Year 1:
$ 8,400.00
Year 2:
$ 750.00
Year 3:
$ 750.00
Total:
$ 9,900.00
Research and scholarship are central to the mission of the Charles E. Schmidt College of Science (CESCOS). Beyond textbooks and lectures, FAU students increasingly are becoming researchers in the classroom and, in the process, becoming scholars. In this way the missions of students, their teachers, and CESCOS support the mission of the University. FAU already houses many unique and active research programs, but opportunities to broadly integrate research into the classroom are often technologically limited. This proposal seeks to eliminate a set of technological limits and to enhance FAU students’ scholarship by assisting multiple courses at several campuses. It will provide state-of-the-field tools to equip biologists including environmental scientists and some neuroscientists to bring novel and innovative projects to FAU students.
To that end, I propose the purchase of a two computers (one to be positioned at Boca Raton and the other at the Davie campus in the Department of Biological Sciences) and GeneMarker software for genetic analyses. Professors, teaching assistants, Principle Investigators and students of several research labs and teaching laboratories would use the software for their graduate and undergraduate research. Through an “Instructor’s License,” professors could offer an unlimited number of student licenses to use in training students in genetic data analyses.
In support of this
request, I have discussed the value of replacing our long-out-dated genetics
programs with the standard in the field, GeneMarker. Drs. Murphey, Binninger, Detweiler, Baldwin,
Hughes and Wyneken as well as multiple graduate and undergraduate students see
tremendous research and teaching value in purchasing the software and two
computers to serve as workstations. They all believe that their labs could make
use of this program. Specifically this technology will provide our students with
state-of-the-art (standard in the field) methods and data analysis tools for
high throughput genetic data. Building
analyses with GeneMarker will help our students seeking jobs in biotechnical as
well as more basic research careers.
Teaching
laboratories that could use the program immediately are Biotechnology, Genetics
and possibly Microbiology. The technology would serve
100+ undergraduate and graduate students/year, would be accessible to at
least 4 professors year-round and would offer access to unlimited numbers
of students through 3-month licensing for program downloads to personal computers.
The
first year’s cost of the program is $2950 (per location), plus the purchase of two
computers dedicated to the program and other genetic tools (if PC~$600, if MAC:
~$1000). Annual upgrades are suggested, but not mandatory ($750). Because
GeneMarker is used by many high-throughput labs in the country, the program
will help to keep our department’s research and teaching relevant to the field
and will provide for seamless analysis of gene sequences processed elsewhere.
In
conclusion, bringing state of the art genetic analysis software and computers into
the department supports the missions of the CESCOS and the University. This request meets the goals of the
technology-fee grants to support the needs of our students and our faculty as
they train students in STEM fields and will help grow the FAU research
enterprise!
| Fiscal Year 1 | Fiscal Year 2 | Fiscal Year 3 | Total | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hardware One-Time | $ 2,500.00 | $ 0.00 | $ 0.00 | $ 2,500.00 |
| Hardware Recurring | $ 0.00 | $ 0.00 | $ 0.00 | $ 0.00 |
| Software One-time | $ 5,900.00 | $ 0.00 | $ 0.00 | $ 5,900.00 |
| Software Recurring | $ 0.00 | $ 750.00 | $ 750.00 | $ 1,500.00 |
| Personnel One-time | $ 0.00 | $ 0.00 | $ 0.00 | $ 0.00 |
| Personnel Recurring | $ 0.00 | $ 0.00 | $ 0.00 | $ 0.00 |
| Other One-time | $ 0.00 | $ 0.00 | $ 0.00 | $ 0.00 |
| Other Recurring | $ 0.00 | $ 0.00 | $ 0.00 | $ 0.00 |
| Totals | $ 8,400.00 | $ 750.00 | $ 750.00 | $ 9,900.00 |
| Filename | Size | Description |
|---|---|---|
| GeneMarker Instructional Florida Atlantic University.pdf | 111,498b | GeneMarker Quote (expires, end of November but could be renewed) |