by Tu-An Nguyen | May 21, 2020 | News
IBSC | Catharina Lindley | May 7, 2020 Dr. Sofie Salama received an R01 research grant from the National Institute of Mental Health to study molecular and cellular defects that underlie complex neurodevelopmental diseases like autism and schizophrenia. Understanding...
by Tu-An Nguyen | May 18, 2020 | News
Idaho News 6 | Jessica Taylor | May 6, 2020 Cutting edge DNA technology led to a match and arrest in the Daralyn Johnson case. Boise State professor and director of the Idaho Innocence Project Greg Hampikian had a critical hand to play in the discovery. Hampikian...
by Tu-An Nguyen | May 18, 2020 | Publications
Abstract Background Researchers are generating molecular data pertaining to the SARS-CoV-2 RNA genome and its proteins at an unprecedented rate during the COVID-19 pandemic. As a result, there is a critical need for rapid and continuously updated access to the latest...
by Tu-An Nguyen | May 18, 2020 | Publications
Abstract De novo assembly of a human genome using nanopore long-read sequences has been reported, but it used more than 150,000 CPU hours and weeks of wall-clock time. To enable rapid human genome assembly, we present Shasta, a de novo long-read assembler, and...
by Tu-An Nguyen | May 13, 2020 | News
UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute | May 13, 2020 A sea otter genome browser — featuring the Monterey Bay Aquarium’s beloved Gidget – is now available to the public. The visualizable genome for the Southern sea otter, Enhydra lutris nereis, comes...
