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The Genomics Landscape
In the January 2024 issue of The Genomics Landscape, NHGRI Director Eric Green announces the appointment of Dr. Adam Phillippy as the founding director of the Center for Genomics and Data Science Research (CGDSR).
… the National Association of Scholars event "Unlocking the Genome: The Human Genome Project" featured me, Aristides Patrinos, Ph.D. ; together we discussed the history of the Human Genome Project. A video recording of that discussion is also …
Educational Resources
Teaching tools to present the foundations of genomics to students and help them understand the impact of genomics in their lives.
The Genomics Landscape
In the January 13, 2022 edition of The Genomics Landscape, NHGRI Director, Eric Green, M.D., Ph.D., announces the appointment of Valentina Di Francesco as founding director of the NHGRI Office of Genomic Data Science.
… three decades, starting before the launch of the Human Genome Project. She was a cherished NHGRI grantee, advisor, … Phenotypes (dbGaP), model organism databases (e.g., Mouse Genome Informatics and Xenbase ), and cloud repositories … Genomics and Data Science Program in the Division of Genome Sciences for more than seven years. She has played a …
The Genomics Landscape
In May 4, 2023 edition of The Genomics Landscape, NHGRI Director, Eric Green, M.D., Ph.D., details a report released by the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine, that provided a series of recommendations for using population descriptors in future genetics and genomics studies.
… the 20th anniversary of the completion of the Human Genome Project, and the 20th anniversary of National DNA Day. … 99th meeting of the National Advisory Council for Human Genome Research will take place on May 15 and 16. The open … 2023 meeting of the National Advisory Council for Human Genome Research. For more information, read the full report …
The Genomics Landscape
In the September 2018 edition of The Genomics landscape, NHGRI Director Eric Green highlights five new educational videos that use poetry and dance.
… Atlanta, Georgia, beginning at 9:30 a.m. Eastern. … The Genome: Unlocking Life's Code  exhibition is currently … of genomics to everyday life, the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) aims to help increase the public's understanding of the human genome and the science of genomics. This is being pursued …
The Genomics Landscape
In the December 3, 2020 edition of The Genomics Landscape, Dr. Eric Green spotlights on ELSIhub.
… that 20+ years later, we would be surveying the entire genome at once, even going into the ‘difficult regions’ to … the ongoing efforts to improve the human reference genome sequence. In 2003, Human Genome Project researchers announced the completion of the …
The Genomics Landscape
In the May 2020 edition of The Genomics Landscape, NHGRI Director Eric Green details how NIH is ramping up research on COVID-19; NHGRI's expansion of its Genome Technology Program; and the the DiY Genome: Unlocking Life's Code exhibition toolkit.
… May meeting of the National Advisory Council on Human Genome Research (NACHGR) will be held as a videoconference … 89th meeting of the National Advisory Council for Human Genome Research will take place on May 18-19. As usual, the … important infectious disease. …  NHGRI is expanding its Genome Technology Program to include two new components that …
Fact Sheets
Estimated cost of sequencing the human genome over time since the Human Genome Project.
… have led to substantial reductions in the cost of genome sequencing. The underlying costs associated with … … Significant scrutiny and attention have been given to genome-sequencing costs and how they are calculated since the … 1980s. For example, NHGRI has carefully tracked costs per genome  at its funded 'genome sequencing centers' for many …
About NHGRI
The Genomics and Society Working Group advises on planning and priorities for genomics and society activities at NHGRI.
… for genomics and society activities at the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI). … The NHGRI Genomics and … a working group of the National Advisory Council for Human Genome Research (NACHGR). The mission of the Genomics and …
Fact Sheets
Genomics is the study of all of a person's genes (the genome), including interactions of those genes with each other and with the person's environment.
… Genomics is the study of all of a person's genes (the genome), including interactions of those genes with each … word.  … An organism's complete set of DNA is called its genome. Virtually every single cell in the body contains a … billion DNA base pairs, or letters, that make up the human genome. With its four-letter language, DNA contains the …