Researchers comparing the human genome with the genomes of other species have discovered a surprising number of matching DNA sequences in a variety of vertebrate species, including the mouse, rat,
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Wednesday, May 5, 2004
Two decade-old parables illustrating the differences between geneticists and biochemists and the relative merits of the two approaches strike a chord with today's scientists, even as the two approa
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Monday, May 3, 2004The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) has named David Haussler, professor of biomolecular engineering and director of UCSC's Center for Biomolecular Science and Engineering (CBSE), a coreci
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Tuesday, April 27, 2004The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and the American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) have awarded David Haussler the Allen Newell Award for groundbreaking contributions tha
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Monday, April 26, 2004
UCSC has joined with two prominent Silicon Valley community colleges--Foothill College and De Anza College--to launch a new program that will help students prepare for careers in engineering.
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Monday, April 19, 2004In the four years since the first draft of the human genome sequence was made available to researchers worldwide, scientists have scrambled to make sense of the information it contains.
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Monday, April 5, 2004While fiberoptic cables carry data at the speed of light over the Internet backbone, the equipment that directs Internet traffic--the switches and routers that get data to the right places--still r
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Thursday, April 1, 2004The chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) genome today joined the growing number of species genomes available using the UCSC Genome Browser and Blat server.
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Thursday, February 19, 2004
UC Santa Cruz has just launched a new Biomolecular Engineering (BME) Department within the Jack Baskin School of Engineering.
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Monday, February 16, 2004
UCSC has established a new Department of Biomolecular Engineering within the Baskin School of Engineering.
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Monday, February 9, 2004The volume of spam clogging the nation's In boxes crossed a threshold of sorts last year, prompting action on several fronts to thwart the onslaught of unsolicited commercial e-mail.
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Monday, January 19, 2004As part of the UCSC Genome Bioinformatics Group, computer science graduate student Krishna Roskin collaborates with leading genome researchers at UCSC and at top research centers around the world.
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Sunday, January 18, 2004Graduate student Krishna Roskin started with the UCSC genome browser project while an undergraduate.
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Friday, January 9, 2004
David Haussler's Genome Bioinformatics Group at UCSC has joined the ENCODE project (for ENCyclopedia Of DNA Elements), sponsored by the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI).
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Friday, December 5, 2003Note: As of 5/28/04, the name of this tool was changed to "Gene Sorter"
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Monday, November 17, 2003
Women studying engineering at UCSC will be the beneficiaries of a $1 million contribution to the Amy Beth Snader Memorial Scholarship Fund from the estate of Barbara Snader.
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Wednesday, November 5, 2003
The work of biomoleuclar engineering faculty member Kevin Karplus is the focus of the Science Advisory Board member spotlight.
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Monday, October 27, 2003
The University of California has given formal approval to UC Santa Cruz to begin offering graduate degrees in bioinformatics, an interdisciplinary field that uses information technology and compute
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Thursday, October 16, 2003
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Thursday, October 16, 2003For the past 3 years, the San Jose Tech Museum has honored groups from around the world who use technology to solve the most urgent global challenges facing humanity.
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Friday, October 10, 2003Biomolecular engineering faculty member Joshua M. Stuart engages in research that elucidates gene function on a global scale.
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Wednesday, October 1, 2003
Implantable microelectronic devices for overcoming blindness, paralysis, and stroke damage are the focus of a new center in which engineers from the University of California, Santa Cruz, are collab
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Monday, September 15, 2003The Center for Biomolecular Science and Engineering (CBSE) at the University of California, Santa Cruz, has been honored by The Tech Museum of Innovation in San Jose as one of 25 laureates for the
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Thursday, August 14, 2003
David Haussler's group at UCSC has participated in one of the most novel and extensive comparisons of vertebrate genomic sequences performed to date.
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Wednesday, August 6, 2003
The UCSC Genome Bioinformatics Group has released a browser and a BLAT server that aids in exploring targeted genomic regions in multiple species.
