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Policy Issues
Federally-funded research with human participants must comply with regulations that protect the rights and welfare of the participants.
… not be otherwise obtained using model organisms or other methods. All federally-funded research with human … in DNA sequencing have made high-throughput sequencing methods significantly faster and cheaper, allowing …
Research Funding
A list of the current courses that are funded by the NHGRI Initiative to Maximize Research Education in Genomics.
… Mount Desert Island Biological Lab CSHL Statistical Methods for Functional Genomics Course The course is designed … Laboratory Workshops on Genomics and Next Generation Computational Statistics for Big Data The workshops are … to more quantitative genomic research and senior computational scientists. University of California Los …
Staff
Dr. Ajay Pillai is a program director in the Division of Genome Sciences at the National Human Genome Research Institute.
… data and knowledge resources, single cell biology, AI/ML methods development including approaches to development of ethical AI, and other computational approaches. He co-leads two Common Fund … of “normal” human tissue and organs) and IDG (developing computational and experimental reagents to study …
The Genomics Landscape
In the October 6, 2022 edition of The Genomics Landscape, NHGRI Director, Eric Green, M.D., Ph.D., celebrates the 25th anniversary of the NIH Intramural Sequencing Center (NISC). a well-respected and highly used large-scale DNA sequencing center that exemplifies the evolution of the field of genomics and the ever-increasing abilities to produce prodigious amounts of genomic data.
… technologies, research approaches, and data analysis methods, all while consistently emphasizing a strong … its experimental repertoire, with a partial list of methods including whole-exome sequencing , whole-genome … been well-studied. The MorPhiC program seeks to explore methods and develop approaches for investigating gene …
Research Funding
Find your NHGRI funding opportunities contact by category.
… Genomic Technology Development Development of new methods, technologies and instruments needed to generate … and RNA processing Gene Regulatory Networks Computational Genomics Development of novel statistical, computational or data science methods, software and tools to …
Research Funding
This content map provides an overview of the Contacts by Research Area webpage. Use the drop-down menu to see the subtopics under each category.
… . … Genomic Technology Development Development of new methods, technologies and instruments needed to generate … and RNA processing Gene Regulatory Networks Computational Genomics Development of novel statistical, computational or data science methods, software and tools to …
News Release
The National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) has selected Valentina Di Francesco as the Institute’s first chief data science strategist and director of its new Office of Genomic Data Science. In this role, she will provide leadership, strategic guidance and coordination for NHGRI activities, programs and policies in genomic data science. NHGRI is part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
… Di Francesco has been the lead program director for the Computational Genomics and Data Science Program in the NHGRI … a field of study that enables researchers to use powerful computational and statistical methods to decode the fundamental information within DNA …
News Release
The newly launched Impact of Genomic Variation on Function (IGVF) consortium to include 30 U.S. sites.
… of disease-associated ones. By integrating experimental methods with advanced computer models, the IGVF consortium … recently made remarkable advances in the experimental and computational methods available for elucidating genome … setting, consortium researchers will also develop computational modeling approaches to predict the impact of …
Organizational Structure
NHGRI’s Office of Genomic Data Science (OGDS) provides leadership, strategic guidance and coordination for NHGRI activities, programs and policies in genomic data science.
… field of study that enables researchers to use powerful computational and statistical methods to decode the functional information within DNA … genomic data science. These efforts range from developing computational tools and methods for analyzing genomic data, …
15 Ways Genomics Influences Our World
Advances in genomics are reducing the cost of genome sequencing by a million-fold.
… (3) compare to other sequences. First they use chemical methods to purify, then, for some menthods, " amplify " the … in forensic samples or ancient bones. Then, different methods can be used to determine the order of each base in … (see videos in resource section below), and we have the computational ability to compare thousands of genomes at …