UC Santa Cruz is proud to be the birthplace of nanopore sequencing
The UC Santa Cruz Sequencing Technology Center supports researchers across campus who have launched cutting-edge programs using nanopore sequencing and data science technologies.
We are dedicated to fostering external collaborations to advance the development of this transformative technology.
We offer a wide range of long-read sequencing and analysis services that take advantage of our expertise in creating full telomere-to-telomere genomes.
SeqTech serves as a centralized resource to support nanopore sequencing (DNA, RNA, and cDNA). Our workshops, seminars, and annual nanopore community meetings facilitate learning and collaboration.
Telomere-to-telomere human genomes
Other species genomes
Rare disease
International community-driven research
Technology for exploring functional elements in telomere-to-telomere sequences
Featured event
Telomere-to-Telomere Consortium
Mark your calendars for the Telomere-to-Telomere “Face-to-Face” (T2T-F2F) two-day conference in Santa Cruz, CA (Sept 3-4). Great people, great science, great memories. The meeting will be hosted within a beautiful redwood grove on the UCSC campus. Registration is open and all are welcome to attend!
Featured news
UCSC’s David Deamer and Mark Akeson honored for invention of nanopore sequencing
UCSC’s David Deamer and Mark Akeson won the Golden Goose award for the invention of nanopore sequencing, a transformational technology for reading DNA and RNA.
Scientists release the first complete sequence of a human Y chromosome
Until recently, about half of the human Y chromosome was missing from the reference genome. Now, scientists have sequenced this chromosome from end-to-end.
Human pangenome reference will enable more complete and equitable understanding of genomic diversity
UCSC scientists, along with a consortium of researchers, have released a draft of the first human pangenome—a new, usable reference for genomics that combines the genetic information of 47 individuals from different ancestral backgrounds to allow for a deeper, more accurate understanding of worldwide genomic diversity.
