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Homeland Security

DHS S&T Seeks Help with Bio-Terror Forensics

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Wednesday, March 19th, 2008

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The Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) Science & Technology (S&T) Directorate has issued a Broad Agency Announcement for research to develop algorithms and/or analytical tools that will assist investigators of bio-terrorism events by providing precision and statistical power to inferences concerning the degree of relatedness among organisms or samples used in a bio-terrorist events. The focus of the effort will be on research in the areas of microbial ecology, population dynamics, host-pathogen interaction, genetic stability, statistical inference, and match criteria…

Congress

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