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Dr. Mullikin was the former director of the NIH Intramural Sequencing Center (NISC).
… develops and utilizes computer programs to analyze large data sets generated by systematic DNA sequencing projects. A highly skilled computational … production operations for high-volume processing of whole-exome sequence data sets. Other research in his group …
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Jim Mullikin pioneered DNA sequencing technologies during the Human Genome Project and other major advances in genomics.
… Mullikin pioneered DNA sequencing technologies during the Human Genome Project and … the whole progress, from the very early days of Sanger sequencing all the way to a complete telomere-to-telomere … genomics, using his skills in technology development and data analysis to improve how scientists image DNA with …
News Release
NHGRI will provide approximately $5.8 million over five years to create an educational hub for computational genomics and data science. The hub will provide new educational and research opportunities for students of diverse backgrounds, including those from groups historically underrepresented in the biomedical sciences.
… Funding to enhance diversity in genomic data science through cloud computing. … National Institutes … create an educational hub for computational genomics and data science. The hub will provide new educational and … platforms to share educational resources for genomic data science to ensure its accessibility to various …
Fact Sheets
Comparative genomics is a field of biological research in which researchers compare the complete genome sequences of different species.
… biology of living things have changed over time. As DNA sequencing technology becomes more powerful and less … list continues to grow almost daily. In addition to the sequencing of the human genome, which was completed in 2003, … NHGRI has sequenced many varieties, providing critical data for understanding genetic variation. DNA sequencing …
News Release
New grants totaling approximately $29.5 million will enable scientists to generate and maintain the most comprehensive reference sequence of the human genome.
… The funds are necessary for making advances in DNA sequencing technology and computational methods possible. As … research studies that use or analyze human genomic data rely on the established reference sequence of the human … will represent 350 genomes from the human population. The sequencing of the human genome was a landmark achievement in …
Staff
Jennifer Strasburger was the lead Genomic Program Administrator (GPA) for NHGRI as well as the co-chair for the NHGRI Data Access Committee (DAC).
… and intramural investigators in depositing genomic data into public repositories such as dbGaP and AnVIL . Ms. … (GPA) for NHGRI as well as the co-chair for the NHGRI Data Access Committee (DAC). … Jennifer Strasburger, Data Access Committee (DAC), informatics, epigenetic, …
News Release
NIH leaders are calling for the scientific community to develop a consensus on the appropriate use of race and ethnicity in biomedical research.
… NHGRI and NIMHD to discuss the use of race and ethnicity data in genomics, biomedical, and clinical research , and its … the scientific rigor in collecting racial and ethnic data, especially in clinical settings; standardize … in biomedical research. ​ … genetic variation, DNA sequencing, health disparities, race and ethnicity, ancestry …
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.
… the Office of Communications, the Office of Genomic Data Science, and the Training, Diversity, and Health Equity … approach of using the best-available technologies for sequencing DNA and pushing them to their absolute limits. In … filling in the remaining bits because the technologies for sequencing DNA at that time were clearly not up to the task. …
News Release
A team of NIH-funded researchers have generated the first complete chromosome sequences from non-human primates.
… has only become possible in recent years due to new DNA sequencing technologies and analysis methods. These …
News Release
Three practical strategies for reducing the risk of re-identification, the process by which anonymized personal genomic data are matched with the owner.
… Sheena Faherty, Ph.D. … Data sharing is key to the success of medical research, and … are often those most eager to see their donation of data put to use. … However, getting the right balance between … - the process by which anonymized personal genomic data are matched with the true owner. The paper is the result …