History
GlyGen History
- Raja Mazumder (The George Washington University) and William York (CCRC, University of Georgia, Athens) started GlyGen with the support of Rene and several others.
- Raja Mazumder wrote an R34 grant as Principal Investigator (PI) for planning a glycoinformatics resource, a one-year project awarded in August 2015.
- Simultaneously, William York wrote another R34 grant, and both were separately funded. Instead of competing, they collaborated and submitted the GlyGen proposal together as PIs.
- During the planning phase, Raja and Will organized meetings at George Washington University (GW), bringing together experts from the glyco, genomics, and biocuration communities. They gathered over 100 use cases to guide the project.
- Raja and Will collaborated with others to to come up with the 'GlyGen' name and content for the first GlyGen U01 proposal, incorporating insights from the collected use cases. They submitted it as joint PIs.
- After William’s retirement, Michael (Mike) Tiemeyer took over his role. In the current GlyGen phase 2 (R24), Raja and Mike serve as PIs, with Rene Ranzinger (CCRC, University of Georgia, Athens) and Robel Kahsay (The George Washington University) as Co-Investigators.
- Nathan Edwards (Georgetown University), Maria Martin (EBI), and Vijay Shanker (University of Delaware) contribute as sub-award investigators.