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The latest vg release v1.37.0 is now out at  https://github.com/vgteam/vg/releases/tag/v1.37.0  This release includes full support for GBZ-format graphs! Please check it out  and contact us https://cglgenomics.ucsc.edu/contact-us/ to share feedback.  Our vg team...

The latest vg release v1.36.0 - Cibottola is now out. This newest release offers: Improvements to vg clip, including an option for clipping out big deletion edges while skipping multiple specified alleles Surjection can also now prune back low-complexity or short...

On our new variation graph release, codename Ghizzano v1.35.0, we made some improvements to our mappers, mpmap and giraffe, to improve speed and sensitivity. We've also improved the usability of our transcriptomics analysis: We can produce more realistic simulated...

Our new variation graph release codename "Moscona" offers support for building on Apple's recently released M1 ARM Macs. Please check it out here: https://github.com/vgteam/vg/releases/tag/v1.33.0 Contact us https://cglgenomics.ucsc.edu/contact-us/ to share your...

Our new variation graph release codename "Sedlo" offers better support for GFA files: We can now take them as input without needing a conversion step beforehand, and we can generate them faster and from more input formats. Please check it out here. Contact us to share...

In 2017, Benedict Paten and collaborators proposed the “Data Biosphere” as a means to substantially accelerate genomics and biomedical research by building cloud platforms where components are modular, open and based on community standards (such as those developed by...

Three papers published November 11 in Nature present major advances in understanding the evolution of birds and mammals, made possible by new methods for comparing the genomes of hundreds of species.

September 24, 2020 - Santa Cruz, CA - UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute Research Scientist Melissa Cline of the Computational Genomics Lab was awarded an NHLBI fellowship to the BioData Catalyst program for her investigation titled “Elucidating the genetic risk of...

Tim Stephens | UCSC | September 14, 2020 Sixteen UC Santa Cruz graduate students have received scholarships worth a total of $160,000 from the Achievement Rewards for College Scientists (ARCS) Foundation for the 2020-21 academic year. Since 1976, the ARCS Foundation’s...