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- Official source · Arc Institute9 days left
Competition · Arc Institute 2026 Virtual Cell Challenge
Zero-shot prediction of CRISPRi perturbation responses across unseen cell contexts; $100,000 grand prize.
Eligible for: Master's student / PhD student / Postdoc / Faculty / Independent researcher / Industry
- Community submitted · Amazon Web Services
Grant · AWS Cloud Credit for Research
Cloud computing credits for researchers and institutions who need compute and storage for data-intensive projects.
Eligible for: PhD student / Postdoc / Faculty
- Community submitted · DREAM Challenges / Sage Bionetworks
Competition · DREAM Challenges
A long-running series of crowd-sourced computational challenges in biomedicine, run with open data and rigorous benchmarking.
- Community submitted · NSF ACCESS
Grant · NSF ACCESS Computing Allocations
Free allocations of national supercomputing, cloud and storage resources for U.S.-based research and education, with entry-level tiers that can be requested at any time.
Eligible for: Master's student / PhD student / Postdoc / Faculty
- Community submitted · NVIDIA
Grant · NVIDIA Academic Grant Program
Compute grants (GPU time or hardware) for academic researchers working on AI and accelerated-computing projects.
Eligible for: Faculty / Postdoc
- Community submitted · U.S. Department of Homeland SecurityClosed
Competition · Ready, Set...ID the Biothreat Challenge
AI-assisted algorithms to detect known, novel, and unknown biological threats in environmental metagenomic datasets. Award: $999,990 total cash prizes.
Eligible for: Master's student / PhD student / Postdoc / Faculty / Independent researcher / Industry