Manny Ares, professor of molecular, cell, and developmental biology, is the main author of a paper this week in the journal Science.
Manny Ares, professor of molecular, cell, and developmental biology, is the main author of a paper this week in the journal Science.
The UCSC Genome Bioinformatics Group has added a mouse genome assembly to the collection of human genome assemblies currently available on the UCSC Genome Browser website and BLAT search tool.
Harry Noller, the Sinsheimer Professor of Molecular Biology, and his coauthors on a groundbreaking paper published last year have received a major award in recognition of their achievements.
The online science web service bio.online interviewed Mark Akeson, an HHMI researcher and CBSE affiliate, about the prospects for using nanopore technology to analyze DNA.
David Haussler was in attendance when more than 150 of the world's leading genome researchers met to contemplate the future of genomics.
Harry Noller, professor of molecular, cell, and developmental biology, was interviewed by The Scientist for his work on the crystal structure of the ribosome.
The new Nicholas Wade book, Life Script: How the Human Genome Discoveries Will Transform Medicine and Enhance Your Health, tells the story of the human genome project and how it will impac
David Haussler, professor of computer science at UCSC and an investigator for the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, has been named Scientist of the Year by R&D Magazine.
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.
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.
A report in Wired News describes the Beyond Genome 2001 meeting an
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
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.
The Tech Sight section of the April 20, 2001 issue of Science discusses the nanopore system developed by the UCSC nanopore research team.
UC Santa Cruz has just approved a new Bachelor of Science program in bioinformatics.
The bioinformatics certificate program offered by UCSC Extension has been named "outstanding credit program for 2001" by the the University Continuing Education Association (UCEA).
Researchers at UCSC collaborated with other Human Genome Project teams to publish the first working draft of the human genome sequence in Nature.
A press conference was held today to celebrate the publication of the human genome in the scientific journals Nature and Science.
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.
David Haussler was the keynote speaker at the Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing (PSB 2001), and Professor Richard Hughey was a session co-chai
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
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
As a partner in one of the first California Institutes for Science and Innovation, UC Santa Cruz was awarded $5 million of
The UCSC Genome Browser is mentioned in Science Magazine's NetWatch feature.
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.