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• Backgrounder: The 1985 Santa Cruz Workshop and the Origins of the Human Genome Project
• Backgrounder: UCSC Genome Bioinformatics Group, 2003
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• Backgrounder: Our Research
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Featured News Stories

• 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

Press Releases

New genome alignment tool empowers large-scale studies of vertebrate evolution

Eleven human genomes sequenced and assembled in nine days

Genomics Institute launches landing page for COVID-19 data resources

Unprecedented study yields most comprehensive map of cancer genomes to date

Coronavirus genome posted on the UCSC Genome Browser

UCSC’s Genomics Institute settles into new Delaware Avenue headquarters

NIH funds new centers to expand and diversify the human reference genome

$8.5 million gift supports UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute

Biologist Olena Morozova Vaske appointed to endowed chair in pediatric genomics

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Data sharing statement made to National Academies by David Haussler 

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