Month: December 2019
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Engineer Holger Schmidt elected a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors
Holger Schmidt, a professor of electrical and computer engineering at UC Santa Cruz, has been named a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI).
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A fully phased accurate assembly of an individual human genome
David Porubsky, Peter Ebert, Peter A. Audano, Mitchell R. Vollger, William T. Harvey, Katherine M. Munson, Melanie Sorensen, Arvis Sulovari, Marina Haukness, Maryam Ghareghani, Human Genome Structural Variation Consortium, Peter M. Lansdorp, Benedict Paten, Scott E. Devine, Ashley D. Sanders, Charles Lee, Mark J.P. Chaisson, Jan O. Korbel, Evan E. Eichler, Tobias Marschall Abstract The prevailing genome assembly paradigm is to produce consensus sequences that “collapse” parental haplotypes into a consensus sequence. Here, we…
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Nanopore native RNA sequencing of a human poly(A) transcriptome
Rachael E. Workman, Alison D. Tang, Paul S. Tang, Miten Jain, John R. Tyson, Roham Razaghi, Philip C. Zuzarte, Timothy Gilpatrick, Alexander Payne, Joshua Quick, Norah Sadowski, Nadine Holmes, Jaqueline Goes de Jesus, Karen L. Jones, Cameron M. Soulette, Terrance P. Snutch, Nicholas Loman, Benedict Paten, Matthew Loose, Jared T. Simpson, Hugh E. Olsen, Angela…
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$8.5 million gift supports UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute
Tim Stephens | UCSC | October 08, 2019 UC Santa Cruz has received an anonymous gift of $8.5 million to support the Genomics Institute’s pioneering interdisciplinary research. The gift, which will be made in annual installments over the next ten years, establishes the Healthier World Fund for the UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute. “We are…
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A picture is worth a thousand base pairs
When Adam Siepel was building algorithms for evolutionary genomics as part of his PhD, he wasn’t thinking about visualization. But, as a graduate student in the laboratory of computational biologist David Haussler, at the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC), he happened to sit next to the software engineers who were building and maintaining a…
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Whole genome sequencing could help save pumas from inbreeding
When students at UC Santa Cruz found a dead mule deer on campus, they figured it had been killed by coyotes. Wildlife biologist Chris Wilmers rigged up a video camera to spy on the carcass at night. But the animal that crept out of the shadows to dine on the deer was no coyote—it was…
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First Annual Get Biotech 2019 a Success
Over 250 people filled every seat in the house for the first annual Get Biotech 2019. Keynote speaker David Deamer enthralled the audience with his journey which started with a Sunday drive, conceiving an idea, pulling over to the side of the road, sketching it out, and going on to become a cornerstone of the…