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The Genomics Landscape
In the March 3, 2022 edition of The Genomics Landscape, NHGRI Director, Eric Green, M.D., Ph.D., highlights the new fact sheets produced by the institute's Communications and Public Liaison Branch.
… best,   … In 2018, the NHGRI funded the creation of the  Genomic Data Science Analysis, Visualization, and Informatics … opportunities to facilitate diverse and large-scale genomic-based analyses in a cloud environment. By inverting … trends in genomics, such as ensuring that the results of genomic studies appropriately reflect human diversity and …
The Genomics Landscape
In the November 3, 2022 edition of The Genomics Landscape, NHGRI Director, Eric Green, M.D., Ph.D., reflects on the important genomics legacy of the Human Heredity and Health in Africa (H3Africa) program as it comes to an end.
… for both the new policy and the long-standing NIH Genomic Data Sharing Policy; this includes the provision of … of humanity and, therefore, has the largest amount of genomic diversity. However, the genomes of people living in … agreement that this lack of information about African genomic diversity needs to be rectified. H3Africa has been a …
Health
Genomic medicine involves using genomic information as part of clinical care and the health outcomes and policy implications of that clinical use.
… Genomic medicine is an emerging medical discipline that involves using genomic information about an individual as part of their … and policy implications of that clinical use. Already, genomic medicine is making an impact in the fields of …
The Genomics Landscape
In the July 2019 edition of The Genomics Landscape, NHGRI Director Eric Green reflects on the milestones of the Newborn Sequencing in Genomic Medicine and Public Health (NSIGHT) Program as it reaches completion.
… of the public. Specifically, the discussions will focus on genomic variation identification, association, and function … and Human Development (NICHD), the Newborn Sequencing in Genomic Medicine and Public Health (NSIGHT) program has … did not cause undue stress for those opting to receive genomic information. However, genome sequencing failed to …
About Genomics
February 15, 2021 marks the 20-year anniversary of publications reporting the draft human genome sequence.
… costs, improved diagnosis of genetic disorders and genomic analysis in standard clinical practice. In its 2020 … 2001 publications, the institute aspires to build better genomic technologies and discover new treatment options to …
The Genomics Landscape
In the May 2019 edition of The Genomics Landscape, NHGRI Director Eric Green recaps activities from National DNA Day 2019.
… can be found in the position announcement . Speaking of genomic medicine implementation… as part of NHGRI’s … Erin Ramos, Ph.D. spoke about sharing knowledge of human genomic variation for use in precision medicine. National DNA … and research endeavors. A featured topic was The Genomic Ascertainment Cohort (TGAC), a partnership between …
The Genomics Landscape
In the January 2024 issue of The Genomics Landscape, NHGRI Director Eric Green announces the appointment of Dr. Adam Phillippy as the founding director of the Center for Genomics and Data Science Research (CGDSR).
… improve, new methods are required to make large-scale genomic edits. Such technologies would be particularly useful … was “how can NHGRI’s IRP be a recognized leader in genomic data science?" Ongoing advances in genomics tools and … for deciphering biological knowledge from large-scale genomic datasets. For example, new computational-based …
Educational Resources
The Human Genome Project was an international project that mapped and sequenced the entire human genome.
… as its groundbreaking approach for the free release of genomic data well ahead of publication, leading to a new …
The Genomics Landscape
In the January 13, 2022 edition of The Genomics Landscape, NHGRI Director, Eric Green, M.D., Ph.D., announces the appointment of Valentina Di Francesco as founding director of the NHGRI Office of Genomic Data Science.
… central to the field of genomics. Both human and non-human genomic data have been widely shared through public data … the power of scientific investigation by allowing genomic data to be combined across studies, and accelerates … number of Data Access Requests (DARs) for secondary use of genomic data (see figure)?     …   In December 2021, …
The Genomics Landscape
In May 4, 2023 edition of The Genomics Landscape, NHGRI Director, Eric Green, M.D., Ph.D., details a report released by the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine, that provided a series of recommendations for using population descriptors in future genetics and genomics studies.
… using population descriptors as a proxy to describe human genomic variation. These descriptors have reflected … individuals’ nationality, geography, and ethnicity, but genomic variation is complex and fails to track accurately to … assumptions about the relationship between biological/genomic differences and racial/ethnic categories can …