The Enabling Discovery through GEnomic Tools (EDGE) program is offered by a leading science foundation to support advanced genomic research. This grant is designed to uncover the mechanistic basis of complex traits in a wide array of organisms, considering their environmental, developmental, social, and genomic contexts. It also emphasizes the crucial development of innovative tools, technologies, resources, and infrastructure that advance biological understanding of how genes relate to phenotypes. Specifically, EDGE provides funding for creating novel methods to test cause-and-effect hypotheses between gene function and phenotypes in diverse plants, animals, microbes, viruses, or fungi, especially where such methods are currently lacking. Furthermore, it supports hypothesis-driven research that investigates genotype-phenotype relationships in non-model organisms, contributing to the understanding of life’s fundamental rules.
Opportunity ID: 359418
General Information
| Document Type: | Grants Notice |
| Funding Opportunity Number: | 20-532 |
| Funding Opportunity Title: | Enabling Discovery through GEnomics |
| Opportunity Category: | Discretionary |
| Opportunity Category Explanation: | – |
| Funding Instrument Type: | Grant |
| Category of Funding Activity: | Science and Technology and other Research and Development |
| Category Explanation: | – |
| Expected Number of Awards: | 15 |
| Assistance Listings: | 47.074 — Biological Sciences |
| Cost Sharing or Matching Requirement: | No |
| Version: | Synopsis 1 |
| Posted Date: | Jun 06, 2025 |
| Last Updated Date: | Jun 06, 2025 |
| Original Closing Date for Applications: | – Proposals accepted anytime |
| Current Closing Date for Applications: | – Proposals accepted anytime |
| Archive Date: | Jun 07, 2025 |
| Estimated Total Program Funding: | $10,000,000 |
| Award Ceiling: | $2,000,000 |
| Award Floor: | $1 |
Eligibility
| Eligible Applicants: | Unrestricted (i.e., open to any type of entity above), subject to any clarification in text field entitled “Additional Information on Eligibility” |
| Additional Information on Eligibility: | – |
Additional Information
| Agency Name: | U.S. National Science Foundation |
| Description: | The Enabling Discovery through GEnomic Tools (EDGE) program supports genomic research that addresses the mechanistic basis of complex traits in diverse organisms within the context (environmental, developmental, social, and/or genomic) in which they function. The EDGE program also continues to support the development of innovative tools, technologies, resources, and infrastructure that advance biological research focused on the identification of the causal mechanisms connecting genes and phenotypes. EDGE is designed to provide support for (1) the development of tools, approaches, and infrastructure aimed at testing cause and effect hypotheses between gene function and phenotypes in diverse plants, animals, microbes, viruses, or fungi for which these methods are presently unavailable, and (2) hypothesis-driven research that tests cause and effect relations between genotype(s) and phenotypes in non-model plants, animals, microbes, viruses, or fungi.
These goals are essential to uncovering the rules that underlie genomes-to-phenomes relationships, an area relevant to Understanding the Rules of Life: Predicting Phenotype, one of the 10 Big Ideas for future NSF investment. |
| Link to Additional Information: | NSF Publication 20-532 |
| Grantor Contact Information: | If you have difficulty accessing the full announcement electronically, please contact:
NSF grants.gov support
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