Institute Director Eric Green noted that a lack of diversity in the scientific and clinical workforce has negative consequences for how research is conducted.
NHGRI has moved the Genotype-Tissue Expression dataset entirely to the cloud in an effort to democratize access to the huge but formerly pricey compendium.
Green and his NHGRI colleagues published a strategic vision for human genomics research, emphasizing data science, implementation of genomics, and human diversity.
The funding will help the San Francisco-based firm apply low-depth NGS as it builds diagnostic tests to aid therapy selection in more diverse populations.
The de novo directional genomic hybridization technology is designed to enable the measurement of simple, complex, and heterogenous structural variants.
Imperial College London researchers are shifting away from testing a COVID-19 vaccine to focus on combating newly emerging SARS-CoV-2 variants, the Independent says.