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NIH funds Center for Live Cell Genomics at UC Santa Cruz The NIH Centers of Excellence in Genomic Science program has awarded $13.5 million over five years for a new center to advance genomics in biomedical research Tim Stephens | UCSC | Sept. 27, 2021 A new Center...

The Bay Area experts who are building COVID-19’s evolutionary tree of life UCSC project reveals the path and pattern of dangerous contagion September 5, 2021 | Lisa M. Krieger | Mercury News As new generations of the COVID-19 virus multiply across the globe, a team of...

UCSC researcher awarded grant for gene variant data exchange expansion In November 2020, we announced an effort led at UCSC by genomics research scientist Melissa Cline in collaboration with the patient advocacy nonprofit No Stomach For Cancer to release a web portal...

Karen Miga Fills In the Missing Pieces of Our Genome Driven by her fascination with highly repetitive, hard-to-read parts of our DNA, Karen Miga led a coalition of researchers to finish sequencing the human genome after almost two decades. Carrie Arnold | Quanta...

Advancing Diversity and Inclusion in Scientific Open Source A few of the funded projects: QIIME 2 is a software platform for microbiome analysis. Funding will enable QIIME 2 for use as an on-ramp to scientific computing for Native American students by engaging locally...