The National Science Foundation (NSF) is offering a grant opportunity titled "Infrastructure Capacity for Biological Research," aimed at enhancing research tools, products, and services that support contemporary biology across various research areas. This program seeks proposals that focus on building capacity in research infrastructure, specifically in the areas of Cyberinfrastructure, Biological Collections, and Biological Field Stations and Marine Laboratories, while excluding instrumentation and projects tied to specific research endeavors. With an estimated total program funding of $18 million and an expected 60 awards ranging from $25,000 to $1.2 million, proposals can be submitted at any time, and interested applicants can reach out to NSF grants.gov support at grantsgovsupport@nsf.gov for assistance. For more details, visit the NSF publication at http://www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=nsf23580.

The Infrastructure Capacity for Biological Research (Capacity) Program supports the implementation of, scaling of, or major improvements to research tools, products, and services that advance contemporary biology in any research area supported by the Directorate forBiological Sciences at NSF. The Capacity Program focuses on building capacity in research infrastructure that is broadly applicable to a wide range of researchers in three programmatic areas: Cyberinfrastructure, Biological Collections, and Biological Field Stations and Marine Laboratories. This program will also accept proposals for planning activities or workshops to facilitate coordination that may be necessary in building capacity in infrastructure that meets the needs of a research community. Areas not included in this program are instrumentation (PIs should submit to the MRI program) and, projects that develop infrastructure for a specific research project, laboratory, or institution (PIs should submitted to the relevant BIO programs that would normally support that research). Projects are expected to produce quality products, result in important science outcomes that will be achieved by the users of the resource, be openly accessible to a broad scientific and education community, and serve a community of researchers beyond a single research team.

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