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 … Unlocking life.

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BRCA Exchange aggregates data on thousands of BRCA variants to understand cancer risk

Jan 14, 2019

A global resource that includes data on thousands of inherited variants in the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes is available to the public. The BRCA Exchange was created through the BRCA Challenge, a long-term demonstration project initiated by the Global Alliance for Genomics...

UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute research sheds light on gray matter

Jan 10, 2019

Investigators at the UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute and UCSC Institute for the Biology of Stem Cells are helping complete the picture of what makes us human.

New App Co-Created at UC Santa Cruz Helps Track Variants that Increase Cancer Risk

Jan 9, 2019

SANTA CRUZ, CA – January 8, 2019 – The BRCA Exchange, the largest public source for information on BRCA1 and BRCA2 variants, has just launched a new app designed to allow users to easily follow breast cancer variants on their smartphones. The app is available for IOS...

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Sixteen diverse laboratory mouse reference genomes define strain-specific haplotypes and novel functional loci.

Article | Nature Genetics | Published: 01 October 2018 Jingtao Lilue, Anthony G. Doran, Ian T. Fiddes, Monica Abrudan, Joel Armstrong, Ruth Bennett, William Chow, Joanna Collins, Stephan Collins, Anne Czechanski, Petr Danecek, Mark Diekhans, Dirk-Dominik Dolle, Matt...

GA4GH 6th Plenary Meeting

The GA4GH 6th Plenary meeting will take place this October in Switzerland. Visit our event website to add the conference to your calendar or submit your email to ensure you receive event updates.

“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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