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The Genomics Landscape
In the April 2019 edition of The Genomics Landscape, NHGRI Director Eric Green previews the redesigned genome.gov website and its new features.
…  and monitor the 'Genomics2020' calendar . … The Genome: Unlocking Life's Code  exhibition is currently … A key element among these efforts is NHGRI's website, genome.gov . For the first time in 9 years, genome.gov is undergoing a complete redesign. It is easy to …
Genomics 101
Find out how the rapidly emerging field of genomics is transforming our understanding of human health and enabling advances that benefit all of humankind.
… Your genome contains many important clues about you—from your … timely information about genomics research and the human genome. Our resources and partnerships help spark scientific …
The Genomics Landscape
In the August 6, 2020 edition of The Genomics Landscape, Dr. Eric Green talks about NHGRI's completion of the third phase of the ENCODE Project and how it reveals the most extensive catalog to date of candidate functional elements that may regulate the genes in the human and mouse genomes.
… genomics: the 30th anniversary of the launch of the Human Genome Project in October 2020. To amplify that drumbeat, the … performed nearly 6,000 experiments – 4,834 for the human genome and 1,158 for the mouse genome – ENCODE was able to … tissue bank for studying gene-expression patterns in reference neonatal, pediatric, and adolescent tissues and to …
About Genomics
NHGRI considers the ethical, legal and social aspect of genomics research in our work, including these key policy issues
15 Ways Genomics Influences Our World
We are learning how our genomes serve as blueprints for life.
… blueprints for life. … Did you know that just knowing the genome sequence of an organism only reveals part of the story … important to determine how that organism interprets its genome and uses that information to build and operate itself … Learn.Genetics - Epigenetics Multimedia Genetics Home Reference - What is the ENCODE Project? Genetic Alliance - …
Talking Glossary
Dominant, as related to genetics, refers to the relationship between an observed trait and the two inherited versions of a gene related to that trait.
The Genomics Landscape
In the April 7, 2022 edition of The Genomics Landscape, NHGRI Director, Eric Green, M.D., Ph.D., highlights the Telomere-to-Telomere (T2T) consortium's publishing of a collection of papers that reported the first truly complete sequence of the human genome.
… significance of their results.   …  In 2003, the Human Genome Project ended with the generation of an essentially … further used this newly completed genome sequence as a reference to discover over 2 million additional genomic … Such efforts will include developing a human genome reference that reflects the full range of global genomic …
About Genomics
The Human Genome Project was an inward voyage of discovery led by an international team of researchers looking to sequence and map all the genes of our species.
… The Human Genome Project (HGP) is one of the greatest scientific feats … to comprehensively study all of the DNA (known as a genome) of a select set of organisms. Launched in October 1990 and completed in April 2003, the Human Genome Project’s signature accomplishment – generating the …
The Genomics Landscape
In the August 2018 edition of The Genomics Landscape, NHGRI Director Eric Green announces the recent launch of the NHGRI Genomic Innovator Award.
… September 26, 2018 at Morehouse School of Medicine. … The Genome: Unlocking Life's Code  exhibition is currently … can be found here . … Launched in 2003, the Genetics Home Reference - a National Library of Medicine (NLM) consumer … - is celebrating its 15th anniversary . The Genetics Home Reference was created at the end of the Human Genome Project …
The Genomics Landscape
In the June 2018 issue of The Genomics Landscape, NHGRI Director Eric Green highlights the success of The Cancer Genome Atlas.
… University in Stanford, CA on July 17, 2018. … The Genome: Unlocking Life's Code  exhibition is currently … of genomics.  …  After more than a decade, The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) program is drawing to an end. A … the tumor and non-tumor samples, including exome and whole-genome sequencing, gene-expression profiling, copy-number …