napari Plugin Grants

About this funding opportunity

This RFA closed on June 2, 2022

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The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative reviewed applications for a second round of grants to support plugin projects for the napari image analysis platform. This round focuses on ensuring the quality of existing plugins through improvements to documentation, user support, usability, and reliability, and establishing foundational plugins for cell biology analyses. Learn about our grantees from Cycle 2, view the RFA, and read our Medium post"). Learn about our grantees from Cycle 1, view the RFA, and read our Medium post").

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For administrative and programmatic inquiries, or other questions pertaining to this RFA, please contact sciencegrants@chanzuckerberg.com"). Key Dates

April 19, 2022

Application portal opens

June 2, 2022

Applications due by 5 p.m. Pacific Time

Mid-September 2022

Earliest notification of decisions (subject to change)

November 1, 2022

Expected start date of award period

Award period and start date: Awards will be for one year (12 months) in duration with an expected start date of November 1, 2022.

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The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) imaging program seeks to give biologists access to reproducible quantitative image analysis. The rise of Python as a leading platform for scientific computing and machine learning shows promise for biological applications. Yet it remains difficult for biologists to take advantage of the latest developments in deep learning-enabled quantitative analysis because of a lack of visualization and exploratory analysis tools that can support modern microscopy and large imaging datasets. Towards that end, CZI has partnered with napari, a community-built, Python-based, open source tool for browsing, annotating, and analyzing large multi-dimensional images. Since the launch of the napari hub in June 2021, the napari plugin ecosystem has been growing exponentially, with over 145 plugins available for the research community.

As napari’s plugin ecosystem grows, it is important for the napari community to find high-quality, trusted plugins, that are well documented and reliable, with intuitive user interfaces and responsive support from their developers, for their data analysis challenges. To support this goal, CZI invites applications for grants of $20,000 in total costs to improve the quality of one or more existing napari plugins through improvements to documentation, user support, usability, reliability, or other activities.

While napari is designed for a broad variety of imaging domains and welcomes plugin developers building a wide variety of tools, in this round of funding, CZI seeks to ensure that the napari ecosystem supports a critical mass of foundational image processing and analysis methods for cell biology. In addition to quality improvements, CZI invites applications for grants of $20,000 in total costs that would enable developers to convert one or more existing image analysis tools for cellular biology to one or more napari plugins.

In addition to funding, awardees will be invited to participate in training and mentorship opportunities to support their success as part of the grant program.

Scope

Applications for two types of grants will be considered in scope according to the level of maturity of the plugin: Quality improvement grants: $20,000 total costs (inclusive of up to 15 percent indirect costs) over 12 months to improve the quality of one or more existing open source napari plugins. Priority will be given to plugins that have strong potential for increased impact through quality improvements such as documentation, user support, usability, and reliability. Plugins supported by quality improvement grants must be available on the napari hub and source code on a public repository prior to the final grant submission date of June 2,…

Topic areas: Life Sciences and Health, Education and Training, General and Cross-cutting R&D.

Funding amount

This grant provides Varies in funding.

Deadline

Applications are accepted on a rolling basis; there is no single fixed deadline.

Who can apply

This opportunity is open to the following applicant types:

• Not specified by the program.

Eligibility

The program did not publish a separate eligibility statement. See the official opportunity page for the full eligibility criteria.

Agency

napari Plugin Grants is administered by Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI), listed via Chan Zuckerberg Initiative.