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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Vertebrate, Earth Genome Projects Provide Updates, Stress Impact on Conservation

Sep 3, 2019

Aug 28, 2019 | GenomeWeb | Julia Karow NEW YORK – The Genome 10K's Vertebrate Genomes Project (VGP) and the Earth BioGenome Project (EBP) are moving ahead in their quests to sequence the genomes of all living vertebrate species and all eukaryotic species,...

VGP generates largest number of high-quality genomes of iconic and endangered species

Aug 29, 2019

Rockefeller University | August 28, 2019 The Vertebrate Genomes Project (VGP) and collaborators are announcing the second data set of the largest number (101) of chromosomal-level genome assemblies of vertebrates towards completing Phase 1 of the VGP, which includes...

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...

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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11:30 a.m – 12:30 p.m.

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

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