Category: Sequencing
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David Deamer named 2024 AAAS fellow
Emeritus Genomics Institute affiliate David Deamer was awarded the lifetime honor along with UCSC Professors Theodore Holman and Raphael Kudela. Deamer researched the foundational science needed to create nanopore sequencing, a revolutionary method for reading DNA and RNA.
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Mark Akeson elected a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors
UC Santa Cruz Professor Emeritus of Biomolecular Engineering and Genomics Institute Associate Member Mark Akeson has been named a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI). Akeson is the co-inventor of nanopore sequencing, a revolutionary method for reading DNA and RNA that has enabled some of the most significant advances in the genomics field.
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Study offers guidance on state-of-the-art long-read RNA sequencing techniques
The techniques used for genetic sequencing of DNA and RNA have been rapidly improving over the past decade, but different methods have costs and benefits, and the scientific community has yet to determine which techniques will yield the best results for a given research question.
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Opening volley
UC Santa Cruz is broadening the federal Year of Open Science—aimed at making taxpayer-funded research findings more accessible to the public—into the Year of Open Scholarship, with the goal of normalizing open access to data and discovery
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PBS’s ‘Easter Island Origins’ explores surprising genetic research to help tell the story of the Rapa Nui people
Rapa Nui, also known as Easter Island, is famous for its moʻai, giant human-like figures carved out of stone that can weigh more than 80 tons. It is an island with a rich history that has been communicated over the generations through oral histories and hundreds of archeological sites, and now UC Santa Cruz Assistant…
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The Race to Save the World’s DNA
The New Yorker magazine’s Matthew Hutson reports on how the Earth BioGenome Project aims “to analyze every plant, animal, and fungus before it’s too late.” UC Santa Cruz’s Benedict Paten is helping them solve the “vast computational challenge” involved in comparing animal genomes, and Ann McCartney is helping to incorporate indigenous data sovereignty into the…
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First DNA analysis of Machu Picchu residents offers insight into Inca society
The first investigation of genomic diversity among people buried at Machu Picchu has revealed that the subjects of this 15th century civilization came from a surprising range of ancestries. The DNA of the remains was highly degraded, but scientists were still able to sequence it with techniques developed at UC Santa Cruz Genomics.
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Special Zoonomia issue of Science offers fresh insights on human, and canine, evolution
This article is about a series of 11 papers published in a special issue of Science. The research was made possible in part by the Cactus alignment tool created at UC Santa Cruz and contains exciting discoveries by a number of our scientists. For additional coverage of the Zoonomia papers, please see “DNA analysis can…
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Beth Shaprio Plans to Revive Dodo Bird
By pursuing the problem of dodo de-extinction, Beth Shapiro and Colossal Biosciences hope to develop critically needed tools for avian genomics, including for the genetic rescue of currently threatened species. In this way, a 21st-century dodo may assist all avian conservation.
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Researchers produce first-ever toolkit for RNA sequencing analysis using a ‘pantranscriptome’
This tool will aid researchers around the world who are working to understand gene expression through RNA sequencing analysis. The tools are publicly available and can be accessed via Github.
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UCSC Genome Browser 2023 Update, Future Plans
This coming year represents the first in our new 5-year planning cycle. A major goal during this time is evaluation and adoption of a pangenome graph data format.
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Postdoctoberfest Spotlight: Jean Monlong
It is Postdoctoberfest! This week, we are celebrating the vital contributions that postdoctoral scholars make to UC Santa Cruz, and to the advancement of science more broadly. This Postdoctober, we are spotlighting Jean Monlong, who has been a postdoc with the Genomics Institute since 2018. His research in Benedict Paten’s lab is part of a…