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Sun, 01 Oct 2006

Apply for NIH grants through grants.gov with linux

I just went throught it. Grants.Gov does not (as of October 1st, 2006) provide a way of using the pureedge viewer or the citrix server (for machintosh) with linux. However, Eric DeWeaver has the following solution which worked for me. There was  a brief glitch as he indicates on the web site but grants.gov or NIH solved it. For Upenn there is a local Windows server for this purpose which I could not get to work but Eric reported that at U Wisc, the similar idea works. So it is worth checking out.

http://www.aos.wisc.edu/~deweaver/grants.gov.howto.html 

 I think it is ridiculous that a federal organization such as NIH uses a mechanism that essentially endorses a particular operating system but to their credit, they *do* announce that this will be solved by 2007. They could be kinder to include instructions for linux, specially as you can see from the above URL, it is not something very complex or something like a hack. It is just using the citrix software again. Let's see how it goes.

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