Month: September 2018
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Biden Cancer Community Summit Spotlights Cancer Research at UC Santa Cruz
The Biden Cancer Community Summit Friday 9/21/18 was an opportunity to help highlight leading-edge cancer research happening at UC Santa Cruz. At this free, open-to-the-public event hosted by UCSC’s Dr. Daniel Kim and sponsored by Startup Sandbox and Nexcelom, leading cancer researchers from UCSC including Professors Robert Coffman, Olena Morozova Vaske, David Haussler, Daniel Kim,…
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Data science researchers to tackle privacy challenges in genomics
Computer scientist Abhradeep Guha Thakurta has won NSF funding to investigate ways to protect the privacy of individuals while allowing access to large genomic data sets September 11, 2018 By Tim Stephens Rapidly growing databases of human genome sequences represent a potential goldmine of information for health researchers, but access to these databases is tightly controlled…
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Historical Sketch: The Santa Cruz Workshop
Robert L. SinsheimerMay, 1985. | Genomics. Volume 5, Issue 4, November 1989, Pages 954-956. The Santa Cruz Workshop in May 1985 resulted from the convergence of several lines of thought.The first complete genome to be sequenced was that of the bacterial virus ¢Xl 74 (5400 nucleotides) by Fred Sanger in 1977. Before that, my laboratory…
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International Space Station update: direct RNA sequencing in space
“RNA sequencing is one of the most direct and unambiguous ways to measure the state of living cells. Native RNA sequencing of the type performed by Astronaut Arnold on the ISS is particularly exciting because it preserves information about nucleotide modifications that occur after transcription. We think that RNA sequencing will be invaluable for monitoring…