{"title":"ISB Awarded $6.5 Million NIH Contract to Develop \u2018Cancer Genomics Cloud\u2019 with Google and SRA International","description":"<p>ISB received a $6.5 million, up to two\u00ad-year, federally funded contract from the National Cancer Institute (NCI), National Institutes of Health (NIH). ISB is one of three organizations awarded a contract by NCI to develop a cloud-\u00adbased platform that will serve as a large-scale data repository and provide the computational infrastructure necessary to carry out cancer genomics research at unprecedented scales. ISB\u2019s Shmulevich group serves as the lead on the project with two partners: Google, Inc., and SRA International, Inc. (a Fairfax, Va.\u00adbased provider of IT solutions and professional services to government organizations).<\/p>","url":"https:\/\/www.systemsbiology.org\/news\/2014\/10\/10\/isb-gets-6-5-million-from-nci-to-create-cancer-genomics-cloud-with-partners-google-and-sra-international\/"}