People

The team behind PluMA

PluMA is developed and maintained by the Bioinformatics Research Group (BioRG) in the School of Computing and Information Sciences at Florida International University, with contributions from collaborators across biology, medicine, and software engineering.

Faculty & leadership

Principal investigators, project management, and faculty collaborators.

Giri Narasimhan

Principal Investigator

Contributors

Developers who have contributed significant work to PluMA and pluma-online under the project license.

  • Joseph Quinn

    Senior Developer

Interested in contributing a plugin or patches? Reach out to the project maintainers or open a pull request on github.com/FIUBioRG/PluMA.

P PluMA

Plugin-Based Microbiome Analysis is a lightweight, language-agnostic pipeline framework developed by the Bioinformatics Research Group (BioRG) at Florida International University.

User Guide (PDF)

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Funding

  • DoD Contract W911NF-16-1-0494
  • NIH 1R15AI128714-01
  • NIJ 2017-NE-BX-0001
  • Florida Department of Health
  • Alpha-One Foundation
  • NVIDIA
  • Florida International University
  • Eckerd College