Category: News
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With cancer, it’s not necessarily where it starts but how it starts
[et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ admin_label=”section” _builder_version=”4.16″ global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding=”0px|||||”][et_pb_row admin_label=”row” _builder_version=”4.16″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.16″ custom_padding=”|||” global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text” _builder_version=”4.22.2″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” sticky_enabled=”0″] Melissa Healy, Los Angeles TimesOctober 12, 2017 “Organizing cancers by their location ‘has made sense for generations, but the results of molecular analysis are now calling this view into question,”…
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Nobel Laureate: The Future of DNA Sequencing Will Be in the Palm of Your Hand
James D. Watson, Andrew Berry and Kevin Davies, Time Magazine Oct 12, 2017 In January 2014, the then-CEO of Illumina, Jay Flatley, caused a stir at a major healthcare conference in San Francisco when he announced that his company was about to make history by delivering “the $1,000 genome”. For the first time, scientists could…
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Response to Charlottesville: We Stand for Equality
We at the UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute are working with urgency to reduce human suffering using science. We believe that the knowledge we gain through the scientific enterprise should be used to advance a more equitable and just society. At this moment, one way we can do that is by speaking out for those…
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School of Engineering faculty rank among top 1,000 Computer Science and Electronics scholars
Rankings are based on the individual’s h-index score, a measure of productivity and impact. #5: David Haussler, Scientific Director, UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute #122: J.J. Garcia-Luna-Aceves #170: Martin Abadi See the full list
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Journal: In-Depth Olena Morozova
Amanda Rotella, Santa Cruz Economic Development, August 10, 2017 Living in Santa Cruz, it can be easy to forget that we have a world class research institution right in our backyard. If you don’t interact with the University on a regular basis, you may not realize that there are BIG (we are taking gigantically important)…
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UC Santa Cruz Genomics Undergrad Awarded Prestigious NIH Research Scholarship
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Treehouse Tumor Database Now Available for Research Use
UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute’s Treehouse Childhood Cancer Initiative and the St. Baldrick’s Foundation are making a 11,000+ tumor database available for use by all researchers in the pediatric cancer community and beyond in our continued battle against childhood cancer. The tumor database, available at https://treehouse.xenahubs.net and free for any researcher to use, contains RNA-Seq…
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Visualizing Human Genome Variation
A comprehensive, genomic variation graph offers an intuitive view of how human genomes vary Biomedical Computation Review | By Katharine Miller Humans share 99.5 percent of their DNA sequence, but that still leaves plenty of variation to go around. To get a handle on which variations contribute to health or disease, researchers typically compare individuals’…
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Nanopipette technology wins first place in NIH ‘Follow that Cell’ challenge
Biomolecular engineer Nader Pourmand has spent years developing technology to measure and track changes within a single living cell over time June 28, 2017 By Tim Stephens Nader Pourmand, professor of biomolecular engineering in the Baskin School of Engineering at UC Santa Cruz, has won the $300,000 first place prize in the Follow that Cell…
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Benedict Paten Appointed Assistant Professor, BME
SANTA CRUZ, CA – June 26, 2017 – UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute (GI) Principal Investigator Benedict Paten has accepted a position as Assistant Professor in the Department of Biomolecular Engineering at UCSC. The professorship will begin July 1, 2017. As a computational biologist and principal investigator at UCSC, Paten’s priorities are to develop the…
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Genomics Institute joins international Human Cell Atlas Initiative
UCSC researchers will collaborate with partners in U.S. and Europe to build a data coordination platform for the effort to characterize every cell type in the human body June 01, 2017 By Tim Stephens Read about it here.
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Software simplified: Containers simplify setup, can boost reproducibility
NATURE | TOOLBOX Andrew Silver 29 May 2017 In 2015, geneticist Guy Reeves was trying to configure a free software system called Galaxy to get his bioinformatics projects off the ground. After a day or two of frustration, he asked members of his IT department for help. They installed Docker, a technology for simulating computational environments, which…