Pan-Cancer project yields comprehensive map of cancer genomes
BRCA Exchange: Data Sharing for the Benefit of Science and Medicine
Beth Shapiro at Davos 2020: When Humankind Overrides Evolution
The (near) complete sequence of a human genome
Adam Phillippy | Genome Informatics Section | September 22, 2020 The Telomere-to-Telomere (T2T) consortium is proud to announce our v1.0 assembly of a complete human genome. This post briefly summarizes our work over the past year, including a month-long virtual...
ARCS Foundation scholarships support UCSC graduate students
Tim Stephens | UCSC | September 14, 2020 Sixteen UC Santa Cruz graduate students have received scholarships worth a total of $160,000 from the Achievement Rewards for College Scientists (ARCS) Foundation for the 2020-21 academic year. Since 1976, the ARCS Foundation's...
NSF advances 25 projects to explore bold ideas for transformative research
UCSC & HHMI Research Investigator Sofie Salama (left) and UCSC undergraduate student Taylor Real (right). Photo taken by Sandra Ramirez. Sept. 15, 2020 - NSF priorities require bold approaches, built on core research. For our long-term agenda to have the greatest...
AMELIE speeds Mendelian diagnosis by matching patient phenotype and genotype to primary literature
Finding a gene in the stacks Genetic disease diagnosis can be time-consuming because of the extensive literature searching required. To speed this process, Birgmeier et al. developed AMELIE (Automatic Mendelian Literature Evaluation), an end-to-end machine learning...
Multi-omic analyses and organoid models for identification of therapeutic vulnerabilities and developmental origins in childhood cancer
Dissertation Defense Lauren Sanders, PhD Candidate, Biomolecular Engineering & Bioinformatics Thursday, June 4, 2020 - 10:00 am Zoom - https://ucsc.zoom.us/j/95333252052 Abstract Pediatric cancers are different from adult cancers in that they often have few...
“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
