Unraveling Evolutionary Patterns

We are using genomics to uncover clues about species extinction, to learn how to save vulnerable populations and to see what this teaches us about our future on earth.

Identifying the Underpinnings of Disease

Diseases like cancer have a unique genetic signature that can be digitized, deconstructed and compared with healthy biology. It’s a clinical problem with a computer science solution.

Uniting Global Communities

We have led the effort to define genomics data-sharing standards by co-founding the GA4GH, with more than 450 organizational members from more than 40 countries

Platforms for Life-Saving Treatments

We can match individual tumor RNA with tumors in the largest public cancer genome database in the world — uncovering potential treatment options for patients with “incurable” cancer.

We are … Revealing life’s code.

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Welcome to the UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute

BRCA Exchange: Data Sharing for the Benefit of Science and Medicine

DNA Testing 2.0: The Near Future of Population Genomics

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New Long Read Assemblers for De Novo Genomes Promise Speed, Scalability

Aug 22, 2019

GenomeWeb | Andrew P. Han | Aug 16, 2019 NEW YORK – Newly released algorithms can assemble de novo human genomes from long read sequencing data in just a few hours' time. Shasta, an in-memory computing-driven algorithm developed by researchers at the Chan Zuckerberg...

Optofluidic chip with nanopore ‘smart gate’ developed for single molecule analysis

Aug 22, 2019

Programmable device enables on-demand delivery of individual biomolecules with feedback-controlled gating for high-throughput analysis UCSC | Tim Stephens| August 16, 2019 A new chip-based platform developed by researchers at UC Santa Cruz integrates nanopores and...

UC Santa Cruz receives $400,000 grant for pediatric cancer research

Aug 19, 2019

Funds support the Treehouse Childhood Cancer Initiative in improving clinical care and treatment option Elaine Ingalls | Santa Cruz Sentinel | August 16, 2019 SANTA CRUZ — UC Santa Cruz has received $400,000 as one of 55 grants from the St. Baldrick’s Foundation for...

Telomere-to-telomere assembly of a complete human X chromosome

Karen H Miga, Sergey Koren, Arang Rhie, Mitchell R Vollger, Ariel Gershman, Andrey Bzikadze, Shelise Brooks, Edmund Howe, David Porubsky, Glennis A Logsdon, Valerie A Schneider, Tamara Potapova, Jonathan Wood, William Chow, Joel Armstrong, Jeanne Fredrickson, Evgenia...

Understanding and promoting diversity in all of its forms

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“The Genomics Institute has been coming up with approaches to treating pediatric cancer that have never been tried before.”

– John “Bud” and Rebecca Colligan, who established the Colligan Presidential Chair

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