Open Science Grants

CZI’s Open Science program aims to advance the universal and immediate open sharing of all scientific knowledge, processes, and outputs. To this aim, we invest in tools, platforms, and organizations that help expand participation and access to the scientific process by making it open and reproducible, and helping scientists build on each others’ work. Browse all our grantees below.

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International Interactive Computing Collaboration (2i2c)
Grant Type Open Science Grantee

2i2c makes interactive computing more accessible and useful for research and education by managing interactive computing infrastructure.

3D Slicer for African Scientists: Enabling AI for Health
Grant Type EOSS 6

To empower African scientists to develop 3D Slicer AI-based extensions for health priorities and enable their deployment to global communities through customized AI models for multilingual translation. Note: This proposal was funded by Wellcome Trust as part of our co-funded EOSS Cycle 6.

3D Slicer for Latin America: Localization and Outreach
Grant Type EOSS 5

To empower the biomedical research community in Latin America by localizing 3D Slicer to Spanish and Portuguese, improving tutorial localization infrastructure, and holding outreach events.

3D Slicer in My Language: Internationalization and Usability Improvements
Grant Type EOSS 4

To increase the accessibility of the 3D Slicer open source platform for biomedical research to clinicians and scientists in non-English speaking countries.

A Hub for Probabilistic Analysis for Single-Cell Genomics
Grant Type EOSS 6

To develop scvi-tools 2.0: an accessible and scalable environment for probabilistic modeling for single-cell genomics that enables the next generation of massive-scale studies.

A Modular Suite of Advanced Bioimaging Tools with scikit-image and Dash
Grant Type EOSS 1

To bring the combined power of scikit-image and Dash to a larger number of scientists thanks to increased execution speed, interactive image annotation and processing, and outstanding documentation targeting life sciences practitioners.

A Solid Foundation for Statistics in Python with SciPy
Grant Type EOSS 1

The project will improve the SciPy library's statistics functionality to better serve biomedical research and downstream projects. In addition, an outreach component will engage female students, inspiring them to participate in open source code development.

A Unified Framework for Cell-Cell Communication Modeling
Grant Type EOSS 6

To develop an open source, unified framework for cell-cell communication modeling and exploration that is available to the entire scientific community.

Accessible Interactive Data Visualizations in Python with Bokeh
Grant Type EOSS 6

To address accessibility gaps in Bokeh, Panel, and Holoviz by incorporating accessibility affordances to ensure everyone can benefit from their powerful data visualization capabilities.

Achieving Accessibility for UpSet Plots
Grant Type EOSS 5

To make UpSet plots accessible to low-vision and blind users, and to simplify authoring UpSet plots.

Adapting limma and edgeR for Single-cell and Proteomics
Grant Type EOSS 4

To address new challenges posed by replicated single-cell RNA-seq data and by mass spectrometry proteomics.

Advancing an Inclusive Culture in the Scientific Python Ecosystem
Grant Type D&I

To support the onboarding, inclusion, and retention of people from historically marginalized groups on scientific Python projects and structurally improve the community dynamics of NumPy, SciPy, Matplotlib, and pandas.

Advancing Array Interoperability Within the PyData Ecosystem
Grant Type EOSS 6

To advance array interoperability within the PyData Ecosystem by accelerating Array API adoption in key libraries used in biomedical research and building infrastructure for measuring API compliance.

Advancing Microbiome Research Through QIIME 2 Community Development
Grant Type EOSS 1

To support the QIIME 2 user and developer communities by enabling sharing of automatically tested third-party content on the QIIME 2 Library, and hosting our first-ever co-convened user and developer workshop and networking event.

AnnData for R
Grant Type EOSS 6

To enhance the anndataR package for improved interoperability and functionality in handling single-cell data within the R programming environment.

Apache Arrow Apprenticeship Program for OSS Maintenance and Community
Grant Type EOSS 3

To support the growth, sustainability, and diversity of the Apache Arrow project by expanding an apprenticeship program, which recruits developers from underrepresented groups and trains them to be open source software maintainers.

ASAPbio
Grant Type Sharing Platforms

Promoting preprints and open, rapid dissemination in the life sciences

Automated Generation of Galaxy Tools
Grant Type EOSS 6

To develop software that is able to automatically integrate existing open source software into the Galaxy platform. Note: This proposal was funded by Wellcome Trust as part of our co-funded EOSS Cycle 6.

Automated Optimal Model Calibration for the OpenSim Biomechanics Simulator
Grant Type EOSS 3

To develop an automated tool that uses optimization to calibrate models of the musculoskeletal system and improve simulation results, and disseminate the tool to the OpenSim community with documentation, examples, case studies, and outreach events.

Bacterial Variant Calling with Snippy
Grant Type EOSS 6

To develop a modular and extensible variant caller for microbial genome data that is sequencing technology agnostic and underpinned by an extensive validation and test suite.

Bayesian Open Source Software for Biomedicine: Stan, ArviZ and PyMC3
Grant Type EOSS 4

To develop key infrastructure updates and collaboration resources for state-of-the-art Bayesian modeling software libraries.

bcbio-nextgen: Reproducible, Community Developed Analysis Pipelines
Grant Type EOSS 5

To provide ongoing maintenance and community support for the bcbio-nextgen toolkit, focusing on existing variant calling functionality and improving the epigenomic pipelines.

Bioconductor Build System: Continuous Integration and Developer Feedback
Grant Type EOSS 1

To reengineer the Bioconductor build system for nightly continuous integration, production, and distribution of tarballs and binaries for over 1,700 user-contributed software packages.

Bioconductor: High Quality Training and Support for a Worldwide Community
Grant Type EOSS 4

To provide Bioconductor training globally by redeveloping the website and developing infrastructure to deliver high quality community-led training in local languages.

Bioconductor: Sustaining a Worldwide Community of Genome Data Scientists
Grant Type D&I

To increase participation of underrepresented groups in genome data science research through alliances with organizations advancing diversity in science, increased mentoring activities for developers, and enhanced governance of Bioconductor.

bioRxiv and medRxiv
Grant Type Sharing Platforms

Preprint servers allow scientists to rapidly share results and manuscripts before they are peer reviewed.

Black in AI
Grant Type Communities of Practice

The Black in AI Academic Program is a resource supporting Black junior researchers as they apply to graduate programs, navigate graduate school, and enter the postgraduate job market.

Bokeh Raster Image and Time Series Improvements for Biomedical Applications
Grant Type EOSS 5

To extend the open source Bokeh library to cover streaming gridded visualizations for bioscience applications that currently require expensive proprietary tools.

Bridging the Gap In Medical Image Analysis and Biomechanics with ITK-SNAP
Grant Type EOSS 2

This grant supports implementation of biomechanical analysis features in ITK-SNAP, an open source application for medical image segmentation, with the goal of streamlining image processing, anatomical modeling, and tissue mechanics analysis from clinical image data.

Bringing GPU Scientific Visualization to the Web with VisPy 2.0
Grant Type EOSS 6

To bridge the gap between the desktop and the web for large-scale GPU scientific visualization by developing a web version of VisPy 2.0 based on Python, WebAssembly, WebGPU, and Datoviz.

Bringing Micro-Manager to Classrooms and the Cutting-Edge
Grant Type EOSS 6

To create a versatile, inclusive, open source microscopy platform for diverse global educational and research communities by modernizing and extending Micro-Manager.

Building Pediatric and Clinical Data Pipelines for MNE-Python
Grant Type EOSS 4

To enhance MNE-Python for clinical neuroscience uses by improving spectral and spectro-temporal data handling, and by providing standardized preprocessing pipelines for data.

Capacity building in bioinformatics for and from Latin America
Grant Type Communities of Practice

To leverage regional research interests and expertise to build computational capacity across Latin America, supporting a variety of activities from workshops to knowledge exchange meetings.

Code Contribution for Women in Network Science
Grant Type D&I

To develop tools, training materials, and mentorship opportunities to help women and nonbinary people in network science to use and contribute code to the igraph open source network analysis library.

cogent3 Python APIs for IQ-TREE and GraphBin via a Plug-In Architecture
Grant Type EOSS 5

To enhance metagenomic analysis by integrating cogent3, GraphBin and IQ-TREE to support innovative genomic technologies for monitoring the impact of viral and bacterial diversity on human health.

ReviewR: a new review, assessment, and discussion platform for preprints, powered by Hypothes.is
Grant Type Sharing Platforms

To build an open source solution to power commenting, review, assessment, and discussion initiatives and provide a platform for the evolution of peer review.

Comprehensive, Scalable, and Collaborative Single-Cell Analysis with Seurat
Grant Type EOSS 1

To develop extensive functionality, expand user support, and initiate new modes of community outreach for Seurat, an open-source R toolkit for integrative single-cell analysis.

Comprehensive, Scalable, and Collaborative Single-Cell Analysis with Seurat
Grant Type EOSS 5

To develop extensive functionality, expand user support, and facilitate interoperability for Seurat, an open source R toolkit for integrative single-cell analysis.

Computational Biology Software Maintenance Framework
Grant Type EOSS 2

To reorganize the libSBML and Deviser code bases for better community involvement, spin out part of libSBML as a reusable component for Deviser and other projects, and establish protocols for long-term sustainability of these important resources.

Computational Tools for Population-Scale Single Cell Genomics
Grant Type EOSS 5

To develop statistically robust, computationally efficient, and maximally compatible open source software for the design and analyses of multiplexed single-cell sequencing experiments.

Connecting Open Source Biomolecular Software Communities
Grant Type EOSS 5

To effectively support community building efforts across open source ecosystems in molecular sciences, improve contributor pipelines, and seek synergies and collaboration opportunities in this space.

Continuous Improvement to Essential High-Throughput Bio-Sequence Aligners
Grant Type EOSS 1

To maintain BWA and improve the performance and robustness of BWA and its next major version BWA-MEM2.

Cytoscape Explore for Biological Networks Brings Cytoscape to the Cloud
Grant Type EOSS 1

To build Cytoscape Explore, a web-based biological network viewer and editor that will make key aspects of the widely used Cytoscape application accessible to new audiences as part of its evolution from a desktop application to a cloud ecosystem.

Data Umbrella
Grant Type Communities of Practice

A global community for people underrepresented in data science

Accelerating global adoption and technical integration identifiers for research outputs
Grant Type Open Science Grantee

To create value for DataCite members through community-driven, innovative, open, integrated, usable, and sustainable services for research. This grant will enable DataCite to make great strides in their systems, processes, and advocacy work supporting researchers’ ability to get credit and recognition for their open research output, as well as further their efforts to build out their international capacity and engagement program that provides regional support and engagement in lesser represented regions such as Latin-America, Africa, the Middle East and Asia.

Deep Probabilistic Programming for Biology with Pyro
Grant Type EOSS 5

To accelerate single-cell biology methods research and empower their developers with foundational probabilistic AI software.

DeepGaitLab: Reconciling Vision-Based Motion Tracking with ISB Standards
Grant Type EOSS 4

To interface recently developed computer vision tools with an open-source biomechanical modeling software, which should facilitate the uptake of markerless motion tracking in biomedicine.

DeepLabCut AI Residents for Next-Gen Animal Behavior
Grant Type D&I

To develop a DeepLabCut AI Residency Program for underrepresented groups in machine learning and computer science in order to recruit, fund, and nurture the next generation of open source leaders.

DeepLabCut: A Software Package for Animal Pose Estimation
Grant Type EOSS 4

To provide maintenance, user-focused extensions, education, and support of the growing DeepLabCut software community.

DeepLabCut: An Open Source Toolbox for Robust Animal Pose Estimation
Grant Type EOSS 1

To support the maintenance, new extensions, and education of users of the DeepLabCut software community.

DeepLabCut: An Open Source Toolbox for Robust Animal Pose Estimation
Grant Type EOSS 3

To support code maintenance, a new code cookbook, and user education for the DeepLabCut software community and set the foundation towards becoming a sustainable software package for years to come.

Delivering High-Quality Bioconductor Training for a Worldwide Community
Grant Type EOSS 6

To expand the global Bioconductor-Carpentries training program, increase equity and accessibility using culturally sensitive AI translation, and build capacity for workshops in Africa

Democratizing Deep Learning for Microscopists with DL4MicEverywhere
Grant Type EOSS 6

To establish DL4MicEverywhere, a containerized deep learning for microscopy toolkit extending the easy-to-use ZeroCostDL4Mic, with interactive notebooks for training and deployment across platforms. Note: This proposal was funded by Wellcome Trust as part of our co-funded EOSS Cycle 6.

Expanding usage of the DocMaps framework
Grant Type Sharing Platforms

To make preprint review and other editorial processes machine-readable and discoverable.

dynverse: A Toolkit for Studying Cell Development with Single-Cell Omics
Grant Type EOSS 2

Single-cell biology is the application of technologies that enable multi-omics investigation at the level of a single cell. This project will streamline trajectory inference from single-cell omics data by improving integration with upstream and downstream analysis pipelines.

Enabling Biomedical Science with Common Workflow Language
Grant Type EOSS 2

To enable portability of complex biomedical workflows across different clouds and on-premise environments via better documentation, community support, and tooling for Common Workflow Language (CWL) with examples using Arvados and from the Personal Genome Project.

Enabling Differential Analyses of Genomic Data with limma, edgeR and Glimma
Grant Type EOSS 1

To improve ease of use and interoperability of these packages, make methodological responses to new data challenges, refresh the documentation and structure of these packages, and prepare training materials.

Engaging Native American Students in Scientific Computing with QIIME 2
Grant Type D&I

To use QIIME 2 as an on-ramp to scientific computing for Native American students by engaging locally with schools primarily serving Native Americans, while expanding the global QIIME2 user, developer, and educator communities.

Enhancing Diversity in Computational Mass Spectrometry
Grant Type D&I

To increase diversity in computational mass spectrometry through teaching and mentoring with the open-source framework OpenMS.

Enhancing Giotto for Spatial Multi-Resolution Technologies
Grant Type EOSS 5

To enhance Giotto by implementing a novel data structure and framework for the abstract representation and analysis of emerging datasets from multi-modal and multi-resolution spatial technologies.

Enhancing High-Level Scientific Computing Support in CuPy
Grant Type EOSS 5

To provide a series of GPU accelerated routines for signal processing and interpolation in CuPy to be a foundation for the research community.

Enhancing Interoperability, UI, and Documentation of MOOSE
Grant Type EOSS 6

To enhance the Multiscale Object-Oriented Simulation Environment software package through development of new GUIs, data and model import tools, and tutorials for computational modeling in neuroscience and systems biology. Note: This proposal was funded by The Kavli Foundation as part of our co-funded EOSS Cycle 6.

Enhancing Spyder IDE Remote Support for Scientific Research in Python
Grant Type EOSS 5

To improve Spyder support for connecting to a remote machine to develop, execute, and debug Python code, as well as installing packages, managing environments and interacting with the remote filesystem.

Enhancing the Bactopia Ecosystem with Trainings and Visual Reports
Grant Type EOSS 6

To ensure ongoing maintenance and community growth of Bactopia, focusing on integrating visual reports and comprehensive training materials.

Enhancing the Open Health Imaging Foundation Web Medical Imaging Framework
Grant Type EOSS 3

To develop training materials, perform software maintenance, expand outreach, and provide community support for the Open Health Imaging Foundation (OHIF) web-based medical imaging framework including its underlying libraries (e.g., Cornerstone).

Enhancing the Open Source SciML Stack for Clinical Trial Simulations
Grant Type EOSS 4

To make significant improvements to the SciML project, which is leveraged by pharmacologists in academia and industry for simulation of virtual clinical trials, drug design, and systems biology modeling.

Enhancing the Performance, Documentation, and Data Ecosystem for bedtools
Grant Type EOSS 1

To enhance bedtools’ functionality, documentation, and access to data, which will empower and expand the user community.

Enhancing Usability of mixtools and tolerance for the Biomedical Community
Grant Type EOSS 3

To provide significant modernization and enhanced usability of the R packages mixtools and tolerance for improved utilization and accessibility within the biomedical and health research communities.

Ensuring Reproducible Transcriptomic Analysis with DESeq2 and tximeta
Grant Type EOSS 3

To extend DESeq2 functions to develop interfaces with Bioconductor’s rich experiment and annotation data, including single-cell datasets and genomic annotations, all leveraging tximeta’s metadata functionality for computational reproducibility.

Ensuring the Continued Growth of pandas
Grant Type EOSS 1

To support continued maintenance and development of pandas, an open source, BSD-licensed library providing high-performance, easy-to-use data structures and data analysis tools for the Python programming language.

Ensuring the Continued Growth of pandas
Grant Type EOSS 4

To support the growth and health of pandas, the foundational library for tabular data structures in the Scientific Python Ecosystem, by funding continued maintenance and community building efforts.

EpiStan: Notebooks and Methods for Disease Modeling in Stan
Grant Type EOSS 5

To build a repository of infectious disease models in Stan that will provide researchers with in-depth examples, helping them to draw sound conclusions and make better predictions from their data.

ETE Toolkit - Enabling Large Scale Phylogenomic Analysis and Visualization
Grant Type EOSS 5

To enable interactive analysis and exploration of phylogenetic data at the genomics and metagenomics scale.

ETE Toolkit: Phylogenomic Data Analysis and Visualization
Grant Type EOSS 2

To support the release and maintenance of a new version of the ETE toolkit including updated documentation and new features such as tree diff, tree-like regular expression searches, and large tree visualization.

Expand Interoperability of Hosted Scientific Documentation
Grant Type EOSS 3

To make scientific Python documentation more valuable by improving the user experience of linking between projects, and promote this ability within the scientific Python community.

Expanding and Deploying Data Visualization Tools for Mining Metagenomes
Grant Type EOSS 5

To expand on existing web infrastructure by building highly intuitive and responsive data visualization tools for mining ‘shotgun’ metagenomic data.

Expanding and Modernizing the Salmon Ecosystem
Grant Type EOSS 5

To expand the capabilities and improve the robustness and maintainability of the salmon software ecosystem, further widening its scope of applicability and improving the user and developer experience.

Expanding the Open mHealth Platform to Support Digital Biomarker Discovery
Grant Type EOSS 2

Open mHealth created an open data standard and community for patient-generated data, and the Digital Biomarker Discovery Pipeline will enable transformation of that data into indicators of health outcomes and evaluation of novel digital biomarkers.

Extending Galaxy for Large-Scale and Integrative Biomedical Analyses
Grant Type EOSS 3

To extend Galaxy, a web-based computational workbench used by thousands of scientists across the world, so that it can analyze large datasets and connect with other analysis tools.

Fast Software Package Management for Bio and Data Science
Grant Type EOSS 4

To improve the tooling around the conda ecosystem to better serve the millions of users in biological sciences, data sciences, physics, robotics and other scientific disciplines.

FastSurfer - AI-Based NeuroImage Analysis Package
Grant Type EOSS 5

To provide an efficient neuroimage analysis pipeline for the medical imaging communities by consolidating advanced DL-methods into a single user-friendly, maintainable, open source software framework.

Flexible, Modular and Extensible Pipelines for Integrative Neuro-Histology
Grant Type EOSS 5

To develop an easy-to-use and validated neuroanatomical framework for the multidimensional image viewer napari, bringing state-of-the-art image analysis plugins to neuroscience.

From Library to Protocol: scikit-image as an API Reference
Grant Type EOSS 5

To create a consistent, type-annotated, discoverable, and extensible API for scikit-image and facilitate interoperability in the broader image analysis ecosystem.

Future: Simple, Scalable Parallelization in R for the Biomedical Community
Grant Type EOSS 4

To sustain maintenance, improve community support, enhance usability and robustness, and add improvements for the future framework.

Globalization of CGAP to Advance Genome Medicine
Grant Type EOSS 5

To inspire a diverse global community to collaborate in genome medicine, research, and education by packaging CGAP’s portal and cloud infrastructure as self-serve, orchestrated, open source software.

GPU Acceleration, Rapid Releases, and Biomedical Examples for scikit-image
Grant Type EOSS 3

To maintain the popular scikit-image Python library for microscopy and medical imaging data and bring significant improvements via development of a backend system enabling multi-threading and GPU acceleration, an improved release process for more rapid cycles, and expanded biomedical examples.

GPU-accelerated Computing in Bioconductor
Grant Type EOSS 6

To support GPU-accelerated Bioconductor packages through continuous integration, user-friendly packaging of system-level dependencies, and foundational packages for Bioconductor GPU programming.

GPU-accelerating Fiji and Friends Using Distributed CLIJ, NEUBIAS-style
Grant Type EOSS 4

To enable end-users of ImageJ/Fiji, Icy and napari to process biological imaging time-lapses or large-scale image data tile-by-tile on multiple graphics processing units (GPUs) using CLIJ.

Growing a Diverse and Inclusive Workflow Ecosystem with CWL
Grant Type D&I

To expand our community so new individuals can meaningfully contribute code, documentation, workflows and other software artifacts by hiring a dedicated software engineer.

GSVA: Optimizing Gene Set Variation Analysis for Single-Cell Data
Grant Type EOSS 5

To optimize GSVA functionality to analyze single-cell and spatial transcriptomic data sets, increasing its robustness and scalability and improving user interface and documentation.

Sustainable computational biology training for LMICs in Africa
Grant Type Communities of Practice

To build a sustainable computational biology training infrastructure with accredited trainers, access to high quality training materials, and support for regional communities of trainees in low and middle income countries (LMICs) in Africa.

HTSJDK: Enhancing the Java Toolkit for Emerging Sequencing Technologies
Grant Type EOSS 2

To enhance the HTSJDK Java toolkit for genomics with an extensible plugin framework that will enable support for emerging technologies required by contemporary analysis methods, such as long reads, graph/circular references, and epigenetic modifications.

ilastik and Scientific Python Ecosystem: Deep Integration with Other Tools
Grant Type EOSS 3

To integrate ilastik with napari and Dask, replacing the outdated internal viewer and task scheduler by modern, community-supported alternatives with the aim to reduce technical debt, engage with the community, and deliver a superior user experience for the bioimage analysis community.

ilastik: Faster and More User-Friendly Through Full Pyramid Support
Grant Type EOSS 4

To enable multi-scale interactive machine learning on large datasets in ilastik through full exploitation of state-of-the-art pyramidal file formats and viewers, and extend functionality to other bioimage analysis tools.

ilastik: Future-Proof Through Stable APIs and Interoperability
Grant Type EOSS 6

To make ilastik more interoperable and its results more reusable and reproducible through the development of Python APIs and general improvement of the third-party developer experience.

Improving Bokeh Figure Publication: SVG, LaTeX, and Maintenance
Grant Type EOSS 3

To improve Bokeh in key areas that are relevant to bioscience research and to secure a solid foundation for long-term project health and sustainability by engaging in important maintenance and fostering new contributors.

Improving Computational Methods for High-throughput Sequence Data Analysis
Grant Type EOSS 4

To maintain and improve the three proposed software projects: minimap2, BWA and hifiasm, and extend them to new architectures and new data types.

Improving OpenRefine’s Reproducibility
Grant Type EOSS 5

To improve OpenRefine to empower users without programming experience to publish research datasets along with verifiable and reproducible workflows, and to automate such workflows.

Improving QIIME 2 pathogen identification and developer community tools
Grant Type EOSS 5

To facilitate the detection and characterization of pathogens in microbiome data, while supporting community development and dissemination of accessible and reproducible bioinformatics applications.

Improving Standard Practice for Neuroimaging Analyses with Nilearn
Grant Type EOSS 5

To scale technical and social support for new analyses in Nilearn including the general linear model, giving access to a broad statistical framework for neuroimagers within the open source Python ecosystem.

Improving the Analytical Flexibility of bedtools
Grant Type EOSS 4

To improve the flexibility and utility of bedtools for large-scale genomic analyses.

Improving Usability and Sustainability for NumPy and OpenBLAS
Grant Type EOSS 3

To improve the robustness and usability of NumPy by continuing to work in documentation and community building, modernizing its integration with Fortran tools via numpy.f2py, and ensuring the sustainability of both NumPy and OpenBLAS.

Improving Usability of Core Neuroscience Analysis Tools with MNE-Python
Grant Type EOSS 2

To enhance usability of MNE-Python through improvements to its computational efficiency, API, interactive visualization capabilities, and the clarity and consistency of documentation.

Improving User Experience and Debuggability of pip For All Python Users
Grant Type EOSS 1

To complete the design, implementation, and rollout of pip's next-generation dependency resolver, and permanently improve pip's maintainer capacity and user experience.

Improving User Experience and Engagement for UCSC Xena
Grant Type EOSS 2

To improve the user experience of UCSC Xena and better engage users by implementing the redesign of two core features using UX principles, standardizing training materials, and publishing a blog highlighting research use cases.

Inclusive and Accessible Scientific Computing in the Jupyter Ecosystem
Grant Type EOSS 4

To bring systematically marginalized voices of disabled scientists into scientific computing communities via building and applying accessibility tools, standards, and community contribution practices in the Jupyter ecosystem.

Industry Open Source Diversity Genomics Internship Program
Grant Type D&I

To improve diversity of computational biology and open source development, providing professional industry opportunities for talent underrepresented within the field of genomics.

Integrating the Software Toolkit for Protein Structure Modeling
Grant Type EOSS 5

To build a new class of macromolecular modeling methods to study the interplay of structure, dynamics, cellular assemblies, and disease from the subatomic to nanometer scale.

Integration of Protégé with Other Open Tools for Ontology Engineering
Grant Type EOSS 5

To integrate the WebProtégé ontology editor with other open source tools that together constitute an ecosystem that is used widely to develop and manage biomedical ontologies.

A collaborative interactive computing service model for global communities
Grant Type Education & Capacity Building

To support a project that will enable collaboration, scalable analysis, and open workflows for communities in the Global South via community-focused interactive computing hubs in the cloud, paired with training and capacity building.

Invest in Open Infrastructure
Grant Type Open Science Grantee

A non-profit initiative dedicated to helping focus investments in the open technology on which research and scholarship rely.

IQ-TREE for Ultra-Large Genomic Data
Grant Type EOSS 1

To develop an open standard and API for phylogenetic models and improve the speed and scalability of the IQ-TREE software for phylogenetic inference from ultra-large genomic data.

JupyterHub Community Strategic Lead
Grant Type D&I

To broaden participation in the JupyterHub community by establishing a role dedicated to strategy and stewardship for pathways into and throughout the community, as well as programs that provide onboarding and mentorship for historically underrepresented groups.

JupyterHub Contributor in Residence Program
Grant Type EOSS 1

To improve community support and technical maintenance across the JupyterHub repositories.

MACS3, Peak Caller with Single-Cell Resolution
Grant Type EOSS 4

To maintain the established infrastructure and optimize the current features of the popular peak caller MACS for gene regulation studies, while focusing on building the data structure and features for single-cell data analysis.

MACS3: A Versatile Peak Caller for Gene Regulation Studies
Grant Type EOSS 2

To enhance the infrastructure to support the continuous development and growing community of the popular algorithm MACS for gene regulation studies, in order to expand its features and adapt to new technologies such as single-cell ATAC-seq.

Maintaining Rocker: Sustainability for Containerized Reproducible Analyses
Grant Type EOSS 1

To put Rocker, the de facto standard for reproducible, containerized R analyses, on a path to sustainable maintenance through refactoring, improving the quality of documentation, expanding the community, and targeting new hardware platforms.

Maintenance & Extension of scikit-learn: Machine Learning in Python
Grant Type EOSS 4

To further the sustainability and usability of scikit-learn by reducing the maintenance backlog and extending its machine learning models and pipelines to support more complex datasets.

Maintenance and Improvement of Validated, Community Developed NGS Analyses
Grant Type EOSS 1

To improve the bcbio-nextgen toolkit, focusing on maintaining existing variant calling functionality and extending support for structural and RNA-seq variant analyses.

Matplotlib: Foundation of Scientific Visualization in Python
Grant Type EOSS 1

To enable Matplotlib to continue as the core plotting library of the scientific Python ecosystem by addressing the maintenance backlog and planning Matplotlib's evolution to meet the community’s visualization challenges for the next decade.

Matplotlib: Foundation of Scientific Visualization in Python
Grant Type EOSS 3

To enable Matplotlib to continue as the core plotting library of the scientific Python ecosystem for researchers in biomedical imaging, microscopy, and genomics by addressing the maintenance backlog and beginning Matplotlib's evolution to meet the community’s visualization challenges for the next decade.

Matplotlib: Foundation of Scientific Visualization in Python
Grant Type EOSS 4

To support the continued maintenance, growth, development, and community engagement of Matplotlib, the foundational plotting library of the Scientific Python Ecosystem.

MDAnalysis: Faster, Extensible Molecular Analysis for Reproducible Science
Grant Type EOSS 4

To improve and maintain high-performance tools for analysis of biological systems at the molecular scale and incentivize scientists to drive transparent and reproducible research.

MDAnalysis: Outreach and Project Manager
Grant Type EOSS 5

To grow the MDAnalysis community sustainably.

MetaDocencia
Grant Type Education & Capacity Building

MetaDocencia provides online computational and scientific training to Spanish-speaking researchers, teachers, and professionals throughout Latin America.

MicroManager 2.0: An Open Platform for Microscopy Image Acquisition
Grant Type EOSS 1

To support the open source µManager optical microscopy acquisition platform to improve its architecture, infrastructure, and support to ensure many years of growth, both in user base and capabilities.

Migrating Protege to a Modern Web Stack
Grant Type EOSS 1

To construct a solid foundation for the next generation of Protege using a modern web stack that will make Protege easier to maintain, extend, and — crucially — make it easier for third parties to contribute to the code base.

Modernizing the igraph Interfaces
Grant Type EOSS 4

To modernize the igraph interfaces to make network analysis easier.

Molecular Visualization: Transitioning Chimera to ChimeraX
Grant Type EOSS 4

To keep ChimeraX molecular and microscopy analysis software current with the latest technology and facilitate the migration of tens of thousands of Chimera users to ChimeraX.

MSstats and Cardinal: Next Generation Statistical Mass Spectrometry in R
Grant Type EOSS 1

To provide open-source, interoperable, and extensible statistical software for quantitative mass spectrometry, which enables experimentalists and developers of statistical methods to rapidly respond to changes in the evolving biotechnological landscape.

Neurodesk: a platform for reproducible neuroimaging
Grant Type EOSS 6

To develop features for an improved user and developer experience in the Neurodesk platform allowing for easier, portable, scalable, and reproducible neuroscience and biomedical imaging analysis. Note: This proposal was funded by Wellcome Trust as part of our co-funded EOSS Cycle 6.

Next Generation File Formats for BioImaging
Grant Type EOSS 1

To support the Bio-Formats user community and develop new formats to make proprietary file formats obsolete.

Next Generation Mass Spectrometry with OpenMS
Grant Type EOSS 1

To enable the analysis of thousands of next generation data-independent acquisition (DIA) mass spectrometry measurements by implementing algorithms, visualization tools, and cloud containers based on OpenMS and the OpenSWATH algorithm.

Next-Generation Movement Monitoring with the DeepLabCut Ecosystem
Grant Type EOSS 6

To enhance the DeepLabCut ecosystem with a new 3D pose module, integration with generative AI (AmadeusGPT), providing codebase and DLC-Live! code upkeep, and continuing our DEI AI Residency Program. Note: This proposal was funded by The Kavli Foundation as part of our co-funded EOSS Cycle 6.

Next-Generation Simulation and Learning in Imaging-Based Biomedicine
Grant Type EOSS 6

To develop and integrate open computational geometry and simulation technology enabling digital twins in biomedicine – next-generation imaging-based modeling, simulation, optimization, and learning. Note: This proposal was funded by Wellcome Trust as part of our co-funded EOSS Cycle 6.

Nextflow and nf-core
Grant Type D&I

To keep the current momentum of initiatives and push forward with new actions for accessibility, internationalization, mentorships and ambassadors.

Nextflow and nf-core: Reproducible Workflows for the Scientific Community
Grant Type EOSS 2

To support a fast-growing, community-building software for infrastructure agnostic, open source biomedical pipelines.

Nextflow and nf-core: Reproducible Workflows for the Scientific Community
Grant Type EOSS 4

To continue support for a fast-growing community, building open source software for infrastructure agnostic, open source biomedical analysis workflows.

NGFF: Democratize Access to Next-Generation Bioimaging Data
Grant Type EOSS 5

To coordinate and foster next-generation file formats while increasing community access to public imaging data.

NiPreps - a Community Framework for Reproducible Neuroimaging
Grant Type EOSS 5

To solidify NiPreps by boosting community growth, securing maintenance, and developing new components to expand the diversity of supported data such as imaging parameters, modalities, populations, and species.

OME-Zarr Support for Java/Fiji
Grant Type EOSS 6

To develop a general-purpose Java library for the community standard image file format OME-Zarr, and robustly integrate it into the widespread image processing and analysis software Fiji.

Ontological Resource Tagging and Discovery for Bioconductor
Grant Type EOSS 6

To enhance discoverability and use of Bioconductor packages and data and teaching resources by tagging them with formal vocabulary and concept relations in ontologies like EDAM.

Open Health Imaging Foundation (OHIF) and Cornerstone Medical Web Viewer
Grant Type D&I

To partner with hack.diversity to serve as curriculum designers and mentors, equipping their Fellows to contribute to open source web-based medical imaging, as well as mentor existing global OHIF contributors.

Open Health Imaging Foundation Web Medical Imaging Framework
Grant Type EOSS 5

To develop, upgrade, and migrate documentation; perform software maintenance; and provide community support for the Open Health Imaging Foundation web-based medical imaging framework.

Open Life Science
Grant Type Education & Capacity Building

Open Science Training and Mentoring

Open Source Image Registration: The elastix Toolbox
Grant Type EOSS 2

This project will improve accessibility, interoperability, efficiency, and sustainability of the biomedical image registration software elastix by providing complete support of Python, better integration with other software, code improvements, and a focus on community.

Open Source Image Registration: The elastix Toolbox
Grant Type EOSS 4

To improve accessibility, interoperability, efficiency, and sustainability of the biomedical image registration software elastix, by making it a library-first package, allowing integration with other software and improving its performance.

Open Source Image Registration: the Elastix Toolbox
Grant Type EOSS 6

To improve accessibility, efficiency, and sustainability of the biomedical image registration software Elastix, by improving interaction possibilities, speed, and accessibility via a web browser. Note: This proposal was funded by Wellcome Trust as part of our co-funded EOSS Cycle 6.

Open Source Ontologies to Power an Open Science Community
Grant Type EOSS 5

To develop open medical ontologies and analytics that enable large-scale generation of real-world evidence on disease and the effects of medical interventions across the world’s electronic health data.

Open Source Software for Bulk and Single-Cell RNA-seq
Grant Type EOSS 2

To support development, outreach, and user support for the kallisto RNA-seq and single-cell RNA-seq software project.

OpenCRAVAT Community Building for Integrated Variant Annotation Framework
Grant Type EOSS 2

To create a sustainable open-source community resource for deep annotation of genetic variants.

Opening Omics Data Science to All with Tidyomics
Grant Type EOSS 6

To administer and expand the scope of the Tidyomics Project, enabling computational biologists to employ a user-friendly grammar to manipulate rich biological datasets across omics and platforms. Note: This proposal was funded by Wellcome Trust as part of our co-funded EOSS Cycle 6.

OpenMM: A Toolkit for Biomolecular Modeling and Simulation
Grant Type EOSS 6

To grow the OpenMM development community and expand the OpenMM software ecosystem to better serve user needs. Note: This proposal was funded by Wellcome Trust as part of our co-funded EOSS Cycle 6.

OpenMM: Key Infrastructure for Biomolecular Modeling and Simulation
Grant Type EOSS 2

This team will support the continued development of OpenMM to better serve its broad biomolecular modeling community, as well as support its extension to integrate machine learning that will enable genomic-scale biomolecular modeling, simulation, and prediction.

OpenRefine for Everyone
Grant Type D&I

To continue to diversify contributors by building capacity in project management, as well as offering internships and eliminating cultural or linguistic biases in the Open Refine tool.

OpenSim Creator: Empowering Biomedical Research with Biomechanical Models
Grant Type EOSS 5

To develop accurate, fast, and researcher-friendly open tools for creating and simulating neuromuscular and musculoskeletal models to address biomedical questions in human and animal mobility.

OpenSim: An Open Source Biomechanics Simulator to Study Movement
Grant Type EOSS 2

To improve the usability, computational performance, maintenance and outreach of the open source software OpenSim and to support the education and training of its users around the world.

oSTEM
Grant Type Communities of Practice

oSTEM empowers LGBTQ+ individuals in STEM to succeed personally, academically, and professionally

Outreach and Software Development for the Apollo Genome Annotation Editor
Grant Type EOSS 1

To hire an outreach coordinator and (part of) a software developer for the Apollo genome annotation editor, provide developer- and user-oriented workshops and training, develop a plugin framework, and integrate protein visualizations.

Outreachy
Grant Type Communities of Practice

Outreachy provides internships in open source to people subject to systemic bias and underepresented in tech.

Papyri: Better Documentation for the Scientific Ecosystem in Jupyter
Grant Type EOSS 4

To upgrade the interactive documentation experience of IPython and Jupyter to allow inline graphs, navigation, and indexing, and to support features currently only available on hosted websites.

Performance Boosts and Updated Algorithms in NetworkX
Grant Type EOSS 6

To update NetworkX algorithms, increase performance of key biomedically related tools such as community detection (CD) and subgraph-isomorphism (SI), and develop a roadmap for improved visualization. Note: This proposal was funded by Wellcome Trust as part of our co-funded EOSS Cycle 6.

PhasorPy: A Python Library for Phasor Analysis of FLIM and Spectral Imaging
Grant Type EOSS 5

To develop an open Python library and community between spectroscopy and fluorescence microscopy users that is both accessible and self-sustainable in the long term.

Predictive Modeling of Single-Cell Multiomics Over Time and Space
Grant Type EOSS 5

To develop an end-to-end, predictive computational ecosystem for quantitative spatiotemporal modeling of spatial and single-cell multiomics.

Predictive Models Evaluation & Inspection in Scikit-learn
Grant Type EOSS 6

To sustain the scikit-learn library through maintenance, improvement, and extension, notably in the domain of predictive model evaluation and inspection. Note: This proposal was funded by Wellcome Trust as part of our co-funded EOSS Cycle 6.

Empowering research communities to shape the future of open and equitable preprint review
Grant Type Sharing Platforms

To improve technology and research culture to support a more open and participatory ecosystem for the public review of preprints.

Processing of Large Image Data in Fiji: ImgLib2/BigDataViewer Ecosystem
Grant Type EOSS 4

To support the maintenance, development and dissemination of ImgLib2 and BigDataViewer, key infrastructural software components for visualization and analysis of large image data on the Java-based platforms Fiji, KNIME, and Icy.

protocols.io
Grant Type Sharing Platforms

Sharing Methods to Accelerate Reproducible Science

Providing a Solid Foundation for Network Analysis
Grant Type EOSS 2

This project will solidify the use and future development of the cross-language igraph package to support network analysis in all scientific domains, including biomedical and life sciences.

PsychoPy3: Essential Open Source Software for Neuroscience and Psychology
Grant Type EOSS 1

To create a smoother experience for PsychoPy users by detecting potential problems in user-created experiments before they are launched, and by increasing the test coverage within the application code itself.

QuPath: Boosting Bioimage Analysis for Users & Developers
Grant Type EOSS 4

To enable researchers to more deeply interrogate complex biomedical images by improving the extensibility, robustness, and interoperability of QuPath.

QuPath: Open Source Bioimage Analysis and Quantitative Pathology
Grant Type EOSS 1

To accelerate biomedical research, biomarker discovery, and the translation of artificial intelligence into clinical practice by enhancing the QuPath open source platform and by integrating it with other CZI-funded software.

Raising Diversity and Internationalization in PsychoPy
Grant Type D&I

To hire a dedicated Communities Champion, running code-sprints and contributor workshops and translating our desktop app into additional languages.

Real-Time Collaboration in Jupyter
Grant Type EOSS 2

This team will build a real-time data model for Jupyter to lay the foundation for real-time collaboration on notebooks.

Real-Time Genomic Epidemiology with IQ-TREE
Grant Type EOSS 4

To significantly speed up IQ-TREE to enable real-time genomic epidemiology during ongoing outbreaks such as COVID-19, and to introduce continuous integration and a testing framework to ease software maintenance for all developers.

Rebuilding the Community Behind VisPy's Fast, Interactive Visualizations
Grant Type EOSS 2

To attract new users and contributors to the VisPy project through software improvements, community outreach, and instructional materials.

Reproducibility for Everyone (R4E)
Grant Type Education & Capacity Building

Reproducibility for Everyone runs workshops to train life sciences researchers in reproducibility tools and best practices.

Reproducibility in Bioinformatics by Sustaining Bioconda Development
Grant Type EOSS 1

To establish teaching material, improve documentation, and minimize maintenance effort of the Bioconda project by extending automation of code review, testing, and building.

Research Software Alliance
Grant Type Open Science Grantee

To support the Research Software Alliance (ReSA) in bringing research software communities together to collaborate on the advancement of the research software ecosystem.

Revitalizing NetworkX for Complex Network Analysis
Grant Type EOSS 2

To meet the needs of the scientific community over the next decade, this team will revitalize NetworkX — the fundamental network analysis tool in Python — by growing its developer community, refactoring code, improving performance, and making a major release.

rOpenSci
Grant Type Education & Capacity Building

rOpenSci helps develop R packages for the sciences via community-driven learning, review and maintenance of R software

Salmon: Improving RNA-seq Quantification & Building an Inclusive Community
Grant Type EOSS 3

To advance support and development of the open source Salmon and Alevin software for gene expression quantification of single-cell and bulk RNA-seq.

Scalable Storage of Tensor Data for Scientific Computing
Grant Type EOSS 1

To establish Zarr as a foundation for scientific data storage, with clear data format and protocol specifications, implementations in multiple programming languages, and a community process for evolving to support new scientific applications.

Scalable Visual Data Analytics with Orange Data Mining Toolbox
Grant Type EOSS 4

To refactor Orange Data Mining toolbox to include the latest Python libraries for parallel, server-based data analysis, allowing it to scale to large biomedical datasets.

Scaling OpenRefine
Grant Type EOSS 1

To attract new contributors by improving OpenRefine's documentation, and implement a new data model to improve the scalability, transparency, and reproducibility of OpenRefine workflows.

Scaling Python with Dask
Grant Type EOSS 2

To provide dedicated community support and maintenance for the Dask project and support growth in the biological sciences field.

Scaling the Foundations of scverse
Grant Type EOSS 6

To scale the core scverse data structures (AnnData, MuData, and SpatialData) for out-of-core/cloud-based analysis to accelerate everything from common analysis tasks to foundational model training. Note: This proposal was funded by Wellcome Trust as part of our co-funded EOSS Cycle 6.

Scanpy 2.0
Grant Type EOSS 1

To expand Scanpy’s core infrastructure and community platforms for stability, versatility, and sharing knowledge.

RRIDs, identifiers for research resources; a new way to link papers and improve resource findability as well as reproducibility
Grant Type Sharing Platforms

To support the creation of resource tables for preprints on bioRxiv.

Scientific Python community and communications infrastructure
Grant Type Open Science Grantee

To support the interoperability, standardization, and accessibility of core libraries and thus expand the global participation of scientific communities in using and contributing to Python tools.

Scikit-learn Maintenance and Enhancement for Gradient Boosting
Grant Type EOSS 1

To improve the open-source machine learning library scikit-learn and aid in maintaining the project, while considering the new implementation of Gradient boosting.

SciPy: Fundamental Tools for Biomedical Research
Grant Type EOSS 5

To better serve biomedical applications, SciPy will add important new features, perform essential maintenance, and disseminate the work to biomedical researchers and software developers.

scvi-tools: Enabling Probabilistic Analysis for Single-Cell Genomics
Grant Type EOSS 4

To maintain and further develop a community resource for probabilistic analysis of single-cell omics data, including an application interface for rapid development of new probabilistic models.

Seamless Integration of Ad-hoc Analysis into Snakemake Workflows
Grant Type EOSS 6

To enhance Snakemake accessibility with open source tools and engage the community to reduce ad-hoc unstructured code and promote a culture of sustainability in data analysis beyond reproducibility.

SPAdes and QUAST Toolkits For Genome Sequence Assembly and Analysis
Grant Type EOSS 4

To turn SPAdes and QUAST codebases into scalable, modular, extensible and user-friendly frameworks that will streamline future research and development in genome assembly, analysis and quality assessment.

Sparse Arrays for Scientific Python
Grant Type EOSS 5

To improve sparse structures in SciPy so they support array semantics, to deprecate SciPy’s sparse metrics, and to assist with sparse array adoption in downstream ecosystem packages.

Strengthening Community and Code Foundations for Brain Imaging
Grant Type EOSS 3

To strengthen the social and code foundations of the Nibabel library by extending the API and input/output to better support metadata, supporting outputs from image registration, and through educational outreach.

Strengthening Computational Neuroanatomy Using DIPY
Grant Type EOSS 5

To extend DIPY’s registration framework for generic use in biomedical research, add parallel computing, strengthen maintenance, expand documentation, and improve educational capabilities.

Strengthening NumPy’s Foundations: Growing Beyond Code
Grant Type EOSS 1

To grow the maturity of the NumPy project through governance, documentation, and website work by improving the robustness of its links with OpenBLAS, and through diversifying the core team beyond the developer role.

Supporting and Sustaining Bioconductor Developers
Grant Type EOSS 6

To champion Bioconductor developers through better community and technical infrastructure, accessibility of documentation, support for developer working groups, and cross-community collaborations.

Supporting Next Generation Single-Cell Genomics Experiments with Monocle
Grant Type EOSS 3

To improve Monocle with algorithms, statistical methods, and web-based visualization tools that will enable biologists using single-cell genomics to extract and disseminate new insights from their experiments.

Supporting the adoption of Xarray in the biomedical research community
Grant Type EOSS 6

To accelerate the adoption of Xarray in the biomedical research community.

Sustained Code and Community Development for NetworkX
Grant Type EOSS 4

To expand and strengthen the NetworkX developer community, reinforce connections with the scientific Python ecosystem, improve documentation and training materials for users, and refine development infrastructure and process.

Sustaining Parsl: Enabling Extreme-Scale Biomedicine
Grant Type EOSS 5

To enable the biomedical community to more easily use large-scale computing to efficiently run complex workflows via Parsl.

SymPy: Improving Foundational Open Source Symbolic Mathematics for Science
Grant Type EOSS 4

To improve the SymPy Python symbolic mathematics library in the key areas of performance, code generation, and documentation.

The Carpentries
Grant Type Education & Capacity Building

The Carpentries teaches researchers computational skills through a scalable and community-centered model.

The GATK Methods for Bacterial Variant Discovery and Evaluation
Grant Type EOSS 1

To develop GATK methods for variant discovery and evaluation in bacteria, resolve inconsistent and diverse results from different research groups, and allow for the sharing of data and analysis globally to control bacterial transmission and antibiotic resistance.

The Health of pandas
Grant Type EOSS 3

To ensure the continued health of the pandas library by dedicating resources specifically to maintenance and implementing consistent missing data handling for all data types.

The Percolator Analysis Engine for Tandem Mass Spectrometry Data
Grant Type EOSS 2

To improve Percolator, the dominant software for analyzing spectrum identifications produced by protein tandem mass spectrometry, by making the software faster, more robust, and applicable to more types of mass spectrometry data.

Transparent, Open & Sustainable Infrastructure for conda-forge and bioconda
Grant Type EOSS 5

To improve conda-forge and bioconda’s sustainability and transparency by adopting vendor-agnostic and secure infrastructure practices and develop comprehensive maintenance metrics and dashboards.

UCSC Xena Mentorship Program
Grant Type D&I

To cultivate the next generation of biomedical open source software data scientists through recruitment, mentorship, and training of underrepresented students.

Unifying and Enhancing Open Source Transcriptomics Analysis
Grant Type EOSS 6

To improve the interoperability, efficiency, and robustness of popular bulk and single-cell transcriptomics analysis tools, and to add important new capabilities to the open source ecosystem.

Unlocking Clinical Data for Biomedical Research in LMICs
Grant Type EOSS 6

To support biomedical research in low-resource settings with open tools for extracting, normalizing, and de-identifying patient-level clinical data from widely adopted OpenMRS Electronic Medical Records.

VisPy 2.0: Next-Generation Interactive Scientific Visualization in Python
Grant Type EOSS 4

To support and further develop a library for high-performance scientific visualization in Python by maintaining the VisPy package and improving documentation within the community.

Web-Based Analysis and Collaboration Tool, seqr, for Rare Disease Genomics
Grant Type EOSS 5

To maintain and enhance seqr, a high quality rare disease genomic analysis platform, for usage across the global scientific community, enabling collaboration for rare disease diagnosis and gene discovery.

Xarray: Multidimensional Labeled Arrays and Datasets in Python
Grant Type EOSS 2

To grow the use of Xarray in the biosciences as a foundational data model and computational toolkit for multidimensional labeled arrays.

Zarr: A Common Backbone for the Scalable Storage of Annotated Tensor Data
Grant Type EOSS 4

To establish Zarr as a common, cross-community mechanism for storing collections of annotated tensors with consistent access for both local and large-scale cloud data.

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