Category: News
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UC COVID-19 seed funding supports UCSC coronavirus genome browser
June 05, 2020 | Tim Stephens | UCSC The UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute’s Genome Browser Team has received seed funding from the UC Office of the President for its work on the UCSC Genome Browser for SARS-CoV-2, which supports biomedical research aimed at developing therapeutics and a vaccine for COVID-19. The team fast-tracked efforts…
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Could we bring back the wooly mammoth? Should we?
Brad Kava and Suki Wessling | Jan 29, 2020 | All Talk, Local, Talk of the Bay KSQD Santa Cruz Community Radio hosted a conversation with Sabrina Shirazi and Molly Cassatt from the Paleogenomics Lab at UC Santa Cruz. In this wide-ranging chat, they discuss ancient DNA, what you can find in a soil sample,…
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VISUALISE THE SARS-CoV-2 CORONAVIRUS GENOME – UCSC Genome Browser Tutorial series
Genomics Gurus | Apr 6, 2020 | YouTube The SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus emerged in December 2019 as a novel human pathogen causing a severe acute respiratory syndrome, called “COVID-19”. In the following months, the disease has spread internationally and was declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization on March 11, 2020. The UC Santa Cruz…
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Guide2Research 2020 Computer Science and Electronics Ranking
We are proud to share that our Scientific Director David Haussler ranks #5 in the world and #5 in the United States, this according to Guide2Research’s 2020 Ranking of Top 1000 Scientists in the field of Computer Science and Electronics. The ranking is based on the H-Index metric provided by Google Scholar and includes only…
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COVID Catalyst Fund supports work on rapid serology test at UC Santa Cruz
Biomolecular engineer Nader Pourmand is evaluating the use of a novel nanosensor to provide rapid, low-cost, and accurate serology tests for coronavirus antibodies May 14, 2020 | Tim Stephens | UCSC Researchers at UC Santa Cruz are testing a novel nanosensor technology that could provide rapid, low-cost serology tests with high sensitivity for detecting and…
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Dr. Salama receives NIH support to research normal and disordered brain development
IBSC | Catharina Lindley | May 7, 2020 Dr. Sofie Salama received an R01 research grant from the National Institute of Mental Health to study molecular and cellular defects that underlie complex neurodevelopmental diseases like autism and schizophrenia. Understanding these mechanisms will help in the development of approaches to prevent or ameliorate these conditions. Multiple…
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New DNA technology leads to DNA match in Daralyn Johnson murder case
Idaho News 6 | Jessica Taylor | May 6, 2020 Cutting edge DNA technology led to a match and arrest in the Daralyn Johnson case. Boise State professor and director of the Idaho Innocence Project Greg Hampikian had a critical hand to play in the discovery. Hampikian knows DNA; he’s been studying samples of it…
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UC’s CITRIS launches COVID-19 response with 25 awards for innovative technologies
Initial round includes potential “game-changing” innovation for diagnostics, therapeutics, and mitigation
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Genome of beloved sea otter Gidget now available for browsing
UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute | May 13, 2020 A sea otter genome browser — featuring the Monterey Bay Aquarium’s beloved Gidget – is now available to the public. The visualizable genome for the Southern sea otter, Enhydra lutris nereis, comes following work by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) and UC Santa Cruz software bioinformaticians to make available the…
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Team reveals genomic history of ancient civilizations in the Andes
The study included samples from the 15th-century Incan site of Machu Picchu. (Photo by Andrea Schell) UCSC | May 07, 2020 | Stephanie Dutchen An international research team has conducted the first in-depth, wide-scale study of the genomic history of ancient civilizations in the central Andes mountains and coast before European contact. The findings, published online…
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Making nanopore sequencing and de novo assembly fast and efficient
De novo assembly of human genomes using long reads has significant resource overhead. In our recent work, we demonstrate nanopore sequencing and a novel de novo assembly tool Shasta-MarginPolish-HELEN to achieve the de novo assembly of eleven human genomes in nine-days Kishwar Shafin | University of California, Santa Cruz | May 4, 2020 When choosing…
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May 4th data release for SARS-CoV-2 genome browser
UCSC Genome Browser | May 4, 2020 We are pleased to announce our second data release for the coronavirus genome browser. Much like our first release, this includes a variety of annotation types such as CRISPR tracks, protein structure and interaction tracks, immunology tracks, and a 119-way multiple sequence alignment. One new track we would…