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For all press and media inquiries, please reach out directly to our Assistant Director of Communications, Rose Miyatsu. Your message will be returned at our first opportunity.
Background Information
Please visit the links below for content, background, and resources for reporters. For specific questions, please feel free to reach out to us directly.
- T2T and Pangenome Fast Facts
- Our current projects and labs and research groups
- Background: The 1985 Santa Cruz Workshop and the Origins of the Human Genome Project
- Background: UC Santa Cruz creates first human genome assembly (New York Times, 2001)
- Background: UCSC Genome Browser History
The Latest at the Genomics Institute
Quick Numbers (2021-2022)
$26.8M
In state and federal funding
$4.6M
In foundation & industry funding
48K
Citations in 2021 and an overall h-index of 279
150K+
Researchers using our browser
207
Students served through our outreach programs
33
Affiliate faculty
5:02
Hours to sequence a genome (a world record)
10M
Covid sequences in our phylogenetic tree
3.055 Billion
Base pairs sequenced by the Telomere to Telomere Consortium
to complete a human genome
Top Headlines (2021-2022)
Other Featured News Stories
- The Completion of the Human Genome – Science, NPR, Washington Post, BBC, multiple other news outlets
- Genomics Institute tool becomes primary method to identify lineages of COVID-19 worldwide
- Data Sharing for Pediatric Cancers – by David Haussler & Olena Morozova Vaske
- The broken promise that undermines human genome research – Nature
- Decoding and Defeating Cancer with Data Science – presented by UCSC and SlateCustom
Statements from the Genomics Institute
Share pandemic sequences openly and fast- Nature
Data sharing statement made to National Academies by David Haussler
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