Category: News
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Broad Institute releases open-source GATK4 software for genome analysis, optimized for speed and scalability
January 9, 2018 Broad Institute releases open-source GATK4 software for genome analysis, optimized for speed and scalability New version of the leading genome analysis toolkit increases analysis scope and includes enhanced machine learning algorithms for greater performance PR Newswire CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Jan. 9, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — Today the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard is releasing…
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This Week in Genome Research
Jan 03, 2018 A team from the University of British Columbia and the University of California, Santa Cruz, presents information on genome sequences generated for the model organism Caenorhabditis elegans using the MinION nanopore long read sequencer. With MinION sequencing and de novo assembly, the researchers tackled the genomes of wild type and rearrangement-containing C.…
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UC Santa Cruz has offerings far beyond hippies and banana slugs.
So why can’t it draw more transfer students? By Teresa Watanabe, LA Times January 3, 2018 UC Santa Cruz sits on an idyllic expanse of redwood groves and rolling meadows. World-class surf is just minutes away. Its researchers were the first to arrange the DNA sequence of the human genome and make it publicly available.…
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Fossil found in Nevada cave holds clues of ancient horse
LAS VEGAS (AP) — A well-preserved horse skull collected more than 86 years ago from a cave near Las Vegas is helping scientists identify a new type of extinct, stilt-legged horse that died out during the last ice age. Scientists are calling it Haringtonhippus francisci after Richard Harington, an accomplished paleontologist who spent his career…
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California Awards UCSC Precision Medicine Funds for Childhood Cancer Research
UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute’s Treehouse Initiative Targets Cancer Using Computers SANTA CRUZ, CA – January 8 , 2018 – The California Initiative to Advance Precision Medicine (CIAPM) has awarded the Treehouse Childhood Cancer Initiative of the UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute a follow-on California state grant worth $500,000. This award has been granted as…
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Grad Student Jordan Eizenga Named 2018 Koret Scholar Mentor
UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute graduate student Jordan Eizenga has been named a Koret Scholar mentor for 2018. Eizenga will mentor UCSC undergraduate mathematics student Kavin Subramanyam, whose project is titled “Effective Markov Sampling in Pan-Genome Graphs for Genome Inference.” Eizenga is a PhD student in the Computational Biology and Bioinformatics program and is a…
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New Incubator Startup Sandbox Targets Emerging Biotech Scene
By Calvin Men • December 12, 2017 • Good Times Santa Cruz Three weeks ago, Josh Schwochert and Cameron Pye were working on their startup out of garages and coffee shops. The two recent chemistry graduates from UCSC’s doctoral program were living the startup life—rubbing elbows at mixers in search of connections, pitching potential investors and…
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Two UCSC biologists receive Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor awards
Biology professors Beth Shapiro and Erika Zavaleta won HHMI funding for their innovative science education proposals December 13, 2017 • By Tim Stephens With funding from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI), biologists at UC Santa Cruz will be using biodiversity surveys and field research to get more students engaged in science. Beth Shapiro and Erika Zavaleta, both…
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UC Santa Cruz scientists and engineers among the most highly cited researchers
By Tim Stephens – November 30, 2017 A list of the world’s most highly cited researchers includes 16 scientists and engineers at UC Santa Cruz. The 2017 edition of the Highly Cited Researchers List produced by Clarivate Analytics features more than 3,300 researchers in 21 fields in the sciences and social sciences who were recognized for publishing highly cited papers…
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A horse is a horse, of course, of course—except when it isn’t
By Tim Stephens – November 28, 2017 An international team of researchers has discovered a previously unrecognized genus of extinct horses that roamed North America during the last ice age. The new findings, published November 28 in the journal eLife, are based on an analysis of ancient DNA from fossils of the enigmatic “New World stilt-legged horse” excavated from sites such…
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How just is genomics and biomedical research?
Monday 13 November 2017 Have commercial imperatives won when it comes to biomedical research? Professor Jenny Reardon argues that genomics hasn’t delivered on promised public and civic values. Simplistic narratives of cures and miracle drugs obscure harder questions about the meaning of and control over genomic data. While not denying the scientific break-throughs of genomics, she…
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What DNA Says About the Extinction of America’s Most Common Bird
ED YONG – NOV 16, 2017 On September 1, 1914, an old, trembling passenger pigeon named Martha died at Cincinnati Zoo. With her demise, her entire species slid into extinction. But in many ways, the species was already gone, for a solitary passenger pigeon is almost not a passenger pigeon at all. This is an animal…