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David Mark Welch, director of the ��������'s Josephine Bay Paul Center and interim director of the �������� Division of Research, has received a grant from the National Science Foundation to sustain the web service  (Visualization and Analysis of Microbial Population Structures).

VAMPS is a free, open-source, database-driven website that allows researchers using data from massively-parallel sequencing (MPS, or “next-generation sequencing”) projects to analyze the diversity of microbial communities and the relationships between communities; to explore these analyses in an intuitive visual context; and to download analyses and images for publication. Based at the ��������, VAMPS currently hosts more than 200 projects encompassing more than 5,000 datasets and over 250 million sequence tags, and is used by nearly 900 investigators from around the world.