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Doug Erickson Doug Erickson

The Human Genome Is—Finally!—Complete

The Genomics Institute is leading the way in filling the holes left in the first draft of the human genetic code. In total, about 8 percent of the more than 3-billion-base-pairs in the human genome has remained unsequenced in the two decades since that first draft.

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Matthew Swinnerton Matthew Swinnerton

UCSC’s Genomics Institute settles into new Delaware Avenue headquarters

Almost 20 years after UC Santa Cruz researchers made history by assembling the first human genome sequence, the campus has formally established the UCSC Genomics Institute as an Organized Research Unit (ORU) providing support for interdisciplinary and collaborative research in genomics across multiple departments and divisions.

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