New!

 GDI is now proud to present a powerful and easy to use new version of the PHS398 form! Here are the new features of version 2002.

Automatic pagination and filling of table of contents of your grants! Entire grants can be assembled, paginated and printed with GrantForms PHS398. No more painful page calculation and assembly!

Share PI and biographies. You can use the same PI and biographies in your different grants.

Management of continuation pages. Program keeps track of all the continuation pages. pag

Save Complete Grant into one file. Easy for backup and Import/Export.

Unbreakable AES Encryption. Your Grant security is vital to your organization.o.

XML compatible. All grants files are saved in XML format, allowing easy import/export with other programs. 

Internet collaboration. Forms can be shared on our secure server. Coworkers can work on the same forms in different locations through the Internet. You can work from home, from your office or when you travel using the same Internet data. This service is free to all registered users.

Multifont Formatting. You can enter, format, cut, paste text in multifont Word format. GrantForms will check that the fonts being used are approved by the NIH and that your grant could not be refused because of bad formatting.

Spell Checker. Spell check your grants with a spell checker compatible with your personal MS-Word dictionaries.

Calculations are complete. All the calculations necessary to build the grant application are done by the program. 

• Here is a comparison  of GrantForms and Adobe PDF forms:

	GrantForms	Adobe PDF forms
Save Data
Automatic Pagination of entire grant. See
Share Biographies and PI among grants. See
Management of continuation page
Save Complete Grant into one file
Unbreakable AES Encryption
Data Backup
XML Data
Import Word Multifont
Complete budget calculation
Spell Checker
Menu Driven. See main menu
One Free year support
Optional Internet Data Sharing

Automatic Pagination and Creation of the Table of Contents

A tedious, time consuming, and error prone process is now performed in seconds.

After the forms are filled, the biographies completed, and the research plan finished, the user opens the Table of Contents form (page 3) and enters, in the non-printing fields provided, only the number of pages for each of the parts of the Research Plan (everything not submitted on official NIH forms).

The Table of Contents is automatically filled, the page numbers will appear on all the form pages, and the page numbering for the Research Plan appears on the TOC where it can be manually transferred to the documents.

If a page is added or removed it is a simple matter to return to the TOC form and make the correction. Everything is painlessly recalculated.

Modular grant applications that do not require budgets are accommodated. If desired, the user can fill the budget pages to calculate the budget, but print a modular application that omits the budget pages.

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Share PI and Biographies

GrantForms database can use the same biographies and continuation pages among different grants.

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Continuation pages management

Continuation pages can be added any time to any page in the grant. GrantForms keeps track of the continuation pages and pagination in the grant.

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Save Complete Grant into one file

The entire grant can be saved into one file. All the necessary attachments can be saved into the Grant file for easier management and backup. Import/Export capabilities allow to use same biographies for several grants.

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Unbreakable AES encryption

The U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has been working with the industry and the cryptographic community to develop an Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) to replace the obsolete Data Encryption Standard (DES), which was introduced way back in 1977. To get a better picture of the security of AES encryption, here is what Mr. Schneier says about it in his 'Secrets & Lies' book, "Even a machine a billion times as fast as Deep Crack [today's one of the most advanced brute-force attack machine, which computes 90 billions keys per second!] would take a million years to try all 2x112 keys and recover the plain text; [and] over a thousand times longer for a 128-bit key. This will be secure for a millennium.".

You can find more information about the AES and the Rijndael algorithm at the following web sites:

http://csrc.nist.gov/encryption/aes/

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Xml Format

XML is a markup language for documents containing structured information. Structured information contains both content (words, pictures, etc.) and some indication of what role that content plays . A markup language is a mechanism to identify structures in a document. The XML specification defines a standard way to add markup to documents.

XML allows any organization to read and understand the Grant data saved with GrantForms. It can be used for reporting, verification, organization.

For more detailed explanation of XML, See http://www.xml.com

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Calculations are complete

• You enter only salaries and costs on budget and checklist pages. 
• Out year costs are all calculated automatically. 
• Total direct and indirect costs appear on the Face Page.
• For each year, the budget cost is calculated by a single click. 
• You can overwrite any calculated result that would not be satisfactory. For example a fringe benefit can be overwritten with a null value.

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