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The Genomics Landscape
In the March 2024 issue of The Genomics Landscape, NHGRI Director Eric Green spotlights the Centers of Excellence in Genomic Science (CEGS) Program evaluation.
… month, Sean Mooney, Ph.D. , will become the director of NIH’s Center for Information Technology (CIT). In this role, Sean … Sean’s own research group will be housed within NHGRI’s Intramural Research Program. If you are interested in …
Talking Glossary
The genome reference sequence provides a general framework and is not the DNA sequence of a single person.
News Release
A new study by researchers at the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) is challenging traditional practices for validating DNA sequencing results.
… is challenging traditional practices for validating DNA sequencing results. The research suggests that newer, faster, "next-generation" DNA sequencing (NGS) methods are as accurate - and perhaps more accurate - than Sanger sequencing, a time-tested technique that is typically used to …
Media Advisory
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) will host researchers from the Telomere-to-Telomere (T2T) consortium, who have now sequenced the remaining 8% of DNA that was unable to be sequenced by the Human Genome Project and has eluded researchers for nearly two decades.
… call on March 31. … The National Institutes of Health (NIH) will host researchers from the Telomere-to-Telomere … What: Virtual press conference to announce T2T consortium sequencing a complete human genome Moderator: Eric Green, … Virtual conference link to come RSVP: NHGRIPressOffice@nih.gov … About NHGRI and NIH … Telomere-to-Telomere (T2T) …
Talking Glossary
RNA-seq, short for RNA sequencing, is a method for sequencing an entire set of RNA molecules.
… RNA-seq (RNA Sequencing) … RNA-seq, short for RNA sequencing, is a method for sequencing an entire set of RNA molecules. … RNA-seq, short …
News Release
NIH will fund researchers to develop computational approaches to figure out which differences in DNA make people more susceptible to disease.
… Ph.D. … New grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) will fund researchers to develop computational … cancer and heart disease. NHGRI and NCI are both part of NIH. … Identifying Genomic Variants … Related Content … NIH supports approaches to discovering DNA differences in …
News Release
The goat has contributed its DNA to a new method for high-quality, low-cost genome reconstruction, one that will be useful for reading human and other genomes.
… National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), part of NIH, and the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)*, … with the USDA Agricultural Research Service in Clay Center, Nebraska, who initiated the project. "A finished, … researchers used a variety of methods, including PacBio sequencing , which was released in 2011. Dr. Phillippy and …
Event
Pre-application webinar on for the Molecular Phenotypes of Null Alleles in Cells (MorPhiC) data analysis validation centers funding opportunity announcement (FOA) on September 7, 2022.
… to email questions in advance to morphicprogram@mail.nih.gov . All times are in US ET. … Virtual … MorPhiC Data …
Talking Glossary
Next-generation DNA sequencing (abbreviated NGS) refers to the use of technologies for sequencing DNA that became available shortly after the completion of the Human Genome Project (which relied on the first-generation method of Sanger sequencing).
… Next-Generation DNA Sequencing … Next-generation DNA sequencing (abbreviated NGS) refers to the use of technologies for sequencing DNA that became available shortly after the …
The Genomics Landscape
In the January 2020 edition of The Genomics Landscape, NHGRI Director Eric Green highlights the newly developed polygenic risk scores webpage, which provides graphical and textual information about polygenic risk scores, describes polygenic traits, introduces how polygenic risk scores can be calculated, and explains how such scores can be interpreted.
… field of genomics. …  Dr. Josh Denny has now arrived at NIH to assume his new position as CEO of the All of Us … research group from Vanderbilt University to the NHGRI Intramural Research Program  (IRP). Josh is a world leader in … program will be to facilitate the use of the NIH Clinical Center by intramural researchers for conducting …