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Small Business: Cell, Computational, and Molecular Biology [IMST (14) and IMST (15)]

​The IMST (14) and IMST (15) panels review small business applications in the general areas of cell biology, molecular biology, genetics, molecular imaging, bioinformatics, and applications with a dominant focus in computational and mathematical sciences. It encompasses some of the scientific disciplines covered by the  Cell Biology (CB) , Bioengineering Sciences and Technologies [BST] and Genes, Genomes, and Genetics [GGG] integrated review groups.

Rosters

​IMST (14) Meeting Rosters              IMST (15) Meeting Rosters

Topics

  • Cell-based technologies for monitoring molecular interactions and/or cellular activity, including development of microscopy instrumentation, reagents, and assays
  • Technologies for cell culture, separation, and high-throughput screening and sorting
  • Technologies for the detection of nucleic acids, including emerging oligonucleotide and micro RNA technologies
  • Technologies for molecular genetics, including protein expression platforms, gene therapy, and transgenic systems
  • Technologies and assay development  for genetic, genomics analysis and functional genomics
  • Technologies and methods for image processing, data analysis, data management, data modeling, and data mining
  • Bioinformatics, computational and systems biology, metabolic and network modeling
  • Software and systems engineering
  • Ontologies, text mining, data mining, neural networks, pattern recognition, and expert systems

Closely Related

​Biological Chemistry, Biophysics, and Drug Discovery [IMST (10) and IMST (11)]  
Basic and Integrative Bioengineering [IMST (12) and IMST (13)]