Small Business: Computational, Modeling, and Biodata Management – BCTB (14)

Topics

• Bioinformatics, computational, and systems biology, metabolic and network modeling
• Software and system engineering
• Ontologies, text mining, neural networks, pattern recognition, and expert systems
• Technologies and methods for imaging processing, data analysis, data management, data modeling, and data mining
• Big-data analytics

Shared Interests and Overlaps

There are shared interests with Drug Discovery (DDTD (10)) and Assay Development, Drug Discovery Tools and Imaging (NPD (16)). Applications proposing to apply computational techniques to drug discovery may be assigned to DDTD (10) or NPD (16). Applications that are focused on the general topics of software development for molecular simulations, cheminformatics analysis, and data modeling may be assigned to BCTB (14).

There are shared interests with Health Technology & Methodologies (HTM (10)). Applications proposing to develop, apply, or refine statistical or technological methods for clinical decision support or that apply biomedical datasets to support clinical decisions may be assigned to HTM (10). Applications in the general area of computation, modeling, and biodata management, with a dominant focus in computational and mathematical sciences, imaging analysis methods, and systems biology may be reviewed in BCTB (14).

There are shared interests with Biomedical Imaging (ISB (10)). Applications proposing to develop software for whole-animal, pre-clinical, and clinical image processing may be assigned to ISB (10). Applications proposing software for high-resolution image processing at a smaller scale may be assigned to BCTB (14).

There are shared interests with Microbial Diagnostics and Detection (DCAI (13)) in the areas of quantitative microbial detection. Applications that focus on advancing bioinformatic, computational and modeling technologies for microbial detection may be reviewed in BCTB (14), whereas applications that apply existing technologies may be assigned to DCAI (13).

There are shared interests with the Bioengineering, Computation and Technology Development A (BCTA) branch in technology development. Applications are reviewed in BCTA if they are related to disease-agnostic diagnostic technologies (Biological Chemistry, Biophysics, and Assay Development, BCTA (10)) and genomics technologies (BCTA (15)), while classification systems are reviewed in BCTB (14).

There are shared interests with Instrumentation, Environmental, and Occupational Safety (BCTC (12)) in device and technology development. Applications are reviewed in BCTC (12) if they focus on the development of sensors and imaging devices (BCTC (12)) and in BCTB (14) if the focus is on data processing and analytics using such devices. 

There are shared interests with Clinical Care and Health Interventions (CCTD 10) in the development of devices and technologies. Applications are reviewed in CCTD (10) if they involve the use of computational technologies and artificial intelligence to address health risks and behaviors. Computational technologies unrelated to health care interventions are reviewed in BCTB (14).