by Tu-An Nguyen | Sep 30, 2021 | News
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...
by Tu-An Nguyen | Sep 21, 2021 | News
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...
by Aleia Dela Cuadra | Sep 13, 2021 | News
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...
by Aleia Dela Cuadra | Sep 8, 2021 | News
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...
by Tu-An Nguyen | Sep 6, 2021 | News
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...
by Tu-An Nguyen | Sep 3, 2021 | News
UCSC inks $3M contract with state to deliver a public health data platform for pathogen genomics One-year, $3 million contract with the California Department of Public Health will galvanize pandemic-related genomic data analysis efforts for the public good Alexis...