Author: Rose Miyatsu
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Nanopore sequencing and assembly of a human genome with ultra-long reads
Article | Nature Biotechnology | Published: 29 Jan 2018 Miten Jain, Sergey Koren, Karen H Miga, Josh Quick, Arthur C Rand, Thomas A Sasani, John R Tyson, Andrew D Beggs, Alexander T Dilthey, Ian T Fiddes, Sunir Malla, Hannah Marriott, Tom Nieto, Justin O’Grady, Hugh E Olsen, Brent S Pedersen, Arang Rhie, Hollian Richardson, Aaron R Quinlan,…
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Ecologist dissects the science of de-extinction
Phys.org | APRIL 22, 2019 | University of Georgia | This information undoubtedly will disappoint “Jurassic Park” fans, but it comes from an expert—Beth Shapiro, the UGA alumna and evolutionary biologist who wrote the book “How to Clone a Mammoth: The Science of De-Extinction.” Shapiro returned to campus April 4 to deliver the George H. Boyd Distinguished…
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From scholarship to achievement, five grads make their mark
UCSC | April 18, 2019 | Matthew Renda UC Santa Cruz will recognize five graduate school alumni who are making outsize contributions to the world in increasingly multifaceted ways. The five recipients of the 2019 Distinguished Graduate Student Alumni Award exemplify the diverse ways in which the former graduate students have translated their scholarship into…
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Scientific Director Haussler ranked #4 worldwide in CS research
Santa Cruz, CA – March 29, 2019 — Scientific Director Haussler ranked #4 worldwide in CS research: According to an H-index metric, UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute Scientific Director David Haussler ranks # 4 worldwide and #4 nationally in the United States in 2019 among those specializing in Computer Science & Electronics. H-index uses the…
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UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute affiliate faculty one of four researchers to win seed funding awards
April 16, 2019 | UCSC Public Affairs UC Santa Cruz researchers are principal investigators of four collaborative teams chosen for funding by the the signature seed funding program of the Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society(CITRIS) and the Banatao Institute. Ten teams received a one-time award of up to $60,000 each for…
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Data sharing for pediatric cancers
Last month, in a conference call held by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and National Institutes of Health (NIH), it was revealed that a large focus of President Trump’s pledge to fund childhood cancer research will be genomic data sharing. Although the United States has only 5% of the world’s pediatric cancer…
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Combined Analysis of DNA, RNA Gaining Popularity in Pediatric Cancer Research
| Apr 02, 2019 | Christie Rizk | ATLANTA (GenomeWeb) | Combining DNA and RNA sequencing data has proven to be beneficial for researchers seeking to understand more about the biology of adult cancers. Just as the advent of genomics testing helped to make cancer care more personalized for adults, the addition of transcriptomics testing…
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New Human Genome Reference Projects Combine Long Nanopore Reads, Other Data Types
| GenomeWeb | Mar 26, 2019 | Julia Karow NEW YORK (GenomeWeb) – Two ongoing efforts to produce new human genome assemblies are combining ultra-long nanopore reads with other types of sequencing and mapping data to generate gapless or near-gapless assemblies that can serve as reference genomes for future studies. The Telomere-to-Telomere (T2T) consortium, led…
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UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute launches brain research project
UCSC engineers and genomics experts are partnering with UCSF neuroscientists to develop new technology for studying human brain evolution and development | February 27, 2019 | By Tim Stephens | The UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute, in collaboration with neuroscience faculty at UC San Francisco, is launching an ambitious new project to learn how the human brain…
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Data sharing will be a major thrust of Trump’s $500 million childhood cancer plan
| Feb. 27, 2019 , 1:15 PM | Jocelyn Kaiser | President Donald Trump’s proposal in his State of the Union address earlier this month to spend $500 million over 10 years on pediatric cancer research will begin in 2020 with a focus on sharing patients’ data, federal officials say. That plan is getting a mixed…
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Gene Expression Outlier Analysis Aims to ID New Druggable Targets for Pediatric Cancers
Feb 28, 2019 Christie Rizk NEW YORK (GenomeWeb) – Next-generation sequencing technology as applied to various cancers has led to the discovery of several DNA mutations thought to be responsible in some way for the development or proliferation of those cancers. This, in turn, has led to the development of several treatments targeted at those…
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Sequencing the white shark genome is cool, but for bigger insights we need libraries of genetic data
February 28, 2019 6.40am ESTGavin Naylor The headlines are eye-catching: Scientists have sequenced the genome of white sharks. Or the bamboo lemur, or the golden eagle. But why spend so much time and money figuring out the DNA makeup of different species? I am an evolutionary biologist at the Florida Program for Shark Research. Our research focuses on understanding how modern sharks…