3D Slicer for Latin America: Localization and Outreach
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.
Project Lead: Sonia Pujol (Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School)
Bacterial Variant Calling with Snippy
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.
Project Lead: Torsten Seemann (The University of Melbourne)
Bayesian Open Source Software for Biomedicine: Stan, ArviZ and PyMC3
To develop key infrastructure updates and collaboration resources for state-of-the-art Bayesian modeling software libraries.
Project Lead: Christopher Fonnesbeck (NumFOCUS)
bcbio-nextgen: Reproducible, Community Developed Analysis Pipelines
To provide ongoing maintenance and community support for the bcbio-nextgen toolkit, focusing on existing variant calling functionality and improving the epigenomic pipelines.
Project Lead: Shannan Ho Sui (Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health)
Bioconductor Build System: Continuous Integration and Developer Feedback
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.
Project Lead: Vincent Carey (Brigham and Women’s Hospital)
Bioconductor: High Quality Training and Support for a Worldwide Community
To provide Bioconductor training globally by redeveloping the website and developing infrastructure to deliver high quality community-led training in local languages.
Project Lead: Aedin Culhane (Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard University)
Bioconductor: Sustaining a Worldwide Community of Genome Data Scientists
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.
Project Lead: Vincent Carey (The Brigham and Women’s Hospital)
Bokeh Raster Image and Time Series Improvements for Biomedical Applications
To extend the open source Bokeh library to cover streaming gridded visualizations for bioscience applications that currently require expensive proprietary tools.
Project Lead: Bryan Van de Ven (NumFOCUS)
Bridging the Gap In Medical Image Analysis and Biomechanics with ITK-SNAP
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.
Project Lead: Alison Pouch (University of Pennsylvania)