U.S. DEFENSE THREAT REDUCTION AGENCY
U.S. DEFENSE THREAT REDUCTION AGENCY
1 PagesCASE STUDY: U.S. DEFENSE THREAT REDUCTION AGENCY CHALLENGE SPECS CHALLENGE Identify Organisms from a Stream of DNA Sequences DISCIPLINES Government, Defense, Biochemistry CHALLENGE AWARD $1,000,000 SOLVERS ENGAGED 2,793 SOLUTIONS 17 PROGRAM DURATION 289 Days Using innovation and advanced research to make U.S. citizens at home and overseas safer, the U.S. Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) is concerned with biological threats in situations where identifying unknown pathogens in quick time is key to saving lives. Knowing that progress of research in this area was falling behind the progress of the threat, DTRA came to InnoCentive to help kick-start a disruptive innovation. Challenge Solutions Result • The analysis of DNA samples has historically taken a long time – often up to a
