The first publicly available assembly of the human genome was made possible in part by a computer program called GigAssembler, which was written by UCSC graduate student Jim Kent.
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In May 1985, a group of eminent biologists gathered at UCSC to discuss a radical proposal put forth by molecular biologist Robert Sinsheimer, then chancellor of the UCSC campus.
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A report in Wired News describes the Beyond Genome 2001 meeting an
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David Haussler, computer science professor at UCSC and investigator with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI), joined forces with Gene Myers from Celera Genomics to organize a joint scientifi
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Harry Noller's group recently solved the x-ray crystallographic structure of 70S ribosome functional complexes, first at 7.8 angstrom resolution, then at 5.5 angstrom resolution.
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The Tech Sight section of the April 20, 2001 issue of Science discusses the nanopore system developed by the UCSC nanopore research team.
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UC Santa Cruz has just approved a new Bachelor of Science program in bioinformatics.
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The bioinformatics certificate program offered by UCSC Extension has been named "outstanding credit program for 2001" by the the University Continuing Education Association (UCEA).
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Researchers at UCSC collaborated with other Human Genome Project teams to publish the first working draft of the human genome sequence in Nature.
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A press conference was held today to celebrate the publication of the human genome in the scientific journals Nature and Science.
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Francis Collins, director of the National Human Genome Research Institute and head of the international Human Genome Project presented President Clinton with a CD-ROM of the human genome.
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David Haussler was the keynote speaker at the Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing (PSB 2001), and Professor Richard Hughey was a session co-chai
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On the final round of Jeopardy that aired December 15th, under the category "Science News" the answer was, "Made available for download by scientists at UCSC, the 739MB file of this project consist
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Professor Kevin Karplus successfully led the UCSC team in the 4th international Critical Assessment of Techniques for Protein Structure Prediction (CASP4), which took place December 3-7 in Pacific
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As a partner in one of the first California Institutes for Science and Innovation, UC Santa Cruz was awarded $5 million of
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The UCSC Genome Browser is mentioned in Science Magazine's NetWatch feature.
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Jim Kent, a biology graduate student working with computer science professor David Haussler at UCSC, has developed a new web-based tool for viewing the human genome sequence.
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The Center for Biomolecular Science & Engineering received a $1 million award from the David and Lucile Packard Foundation in support of the project: "Bioinformatic and microarray expression analy
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Researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, who performed the computer analysis to assemble a working draft of the human genome sequence have now posted their results on a UCSC web sit
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The SAM server, a bioinformatics tool for sequence alignment and modeling, was ranked by Links2go as number four out
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On June 26, 2000, the International Human Genome Sequencing Consortium announced that it has assembled the first working draft of the human genome--the genetic blueprint for a human being.
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David Haussler, professor of biomolecular engineering, and
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Professor David Haussler has been appointed to the UC Presidential Chair of Computer Science at the Santa Cruz campus.
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Two UCSC faculty members--professor of computer science David Haussler and professor of philosophy David Hoy--have been appointed to UC Presidential Chairs on the Santa Cruz campus.
