Rare diseases, defined in the U.S. as conditions affecting fewer than 200,000 people, can take years, if not decades, to ...

Collaboration between the UCO's Agronomy and Genetics departments was key to sequencing the genome of this pathogen, which is ...

Life begins with a quiet but precise choreography inside the nucleus. For decades, scientists believed that a newly ...

In a single experiment, scientists can decipher the entire genomes of many patient samples, animal models, or cultured cells.

A Snakemake-based pipeline called Pipeasm automates key steps of genome assembly, from raw read trimming through scaffolding ...

UC Santa Cruz has a long history of pioneering advances in genomics research. The first working draft of a human genome sequence was assembled on our campus in 2000, which has led to enormous leaps in ...

There are plenty of long-lived organisms out there. Lonesome George the giant tortoise made it past 100; Maria Branyas Morera ...

Twenty-five years ago today, on July 7, 2000, the world got its very first look at a human genome — the 3 billion letter code that controls how our bodies function. Posted online by a small team at ...

Discover new clues about how our ancient relatives disappeared from time.

Botstein, Princeton’s Anthony B. Evnin ‘62 Professor of Genomics, Emeritus, and an emeritus professor of molecular biology ...