Press Coverage
"UCSD Researchers Use AMD GPUs to Build the World's Largest SARS-CoV-2 Alignment and Pangenome"
G. Singh and K. Denolf,
AMD Technical Articles & Blogs
,17-Feb-2026
"Compression Technique Shrinks the Size of Massive Pangenome Data Stores"
RJ Mackenzie,
The Scientist
,15-Jan-2026
"New Pangenomics Data Structure Significantly Lowers Storage Needs"
Forest Ray,
GenomeWeb
,15-Jan-2026
"Compressive Pangenomics Breakthrough Enables Analysis of Millions of Genomes"
Today's Clinical Lab
,14-Jan-2026
"Compressed Data Technique Enables Pangenomics at Scale"
K. Connor,
UCSD Today
,12-Jan-2026
"New Breakthrough: Fully Automated Tool Revolutionizes Species Tree Inference"
ScienMag Team,
ScienMag
,5-May-2025
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Bioengineer.org
"A fully automated tool for species tree inference"
K. Connor,
UCSD Today
,5-May-2025
Also covered by:
EurekAlert
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ScienceDaily
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Phys.org
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Technology Networks
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MirageNews
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Nipponese
"Electrical Engineer Named MIT Technology Review Innovator Under 35"
K. Connor,
UCSD Today
,15-Sep-2023
"How software that tracks covid variants could protect us against future outbreaks"
R. Williams,
MIT Technology Review
,12-Sep-2023
"79 Amazon Research Awards recipients announced"
Amazon Research Awards team,
Amazon Science
,17-April-2023
"New study shows COVID-19 genomic recombination is uncommon but disproportionately occurs in spike protein region"
E. Cerf,
UCSC Newscenter
,11-Aug-2022
"The team behind a tree of 10 million Covid sequences"
R. Miyatsu,
UCSC Newscenter
,21-Jun-2022
"Genomics Institute tool becomes primary method to identify lineages of COVID-19 worldwide"
E. Cerf,
UCSC Newscenter
,04-Apr-2022
"Researchers develop a press-class to identify SARS-CoV-2 regional clusters in real-time"
N. Mathur,
News-Medical.Net
,13-Jan-2022
"A pandemic-scale phylogenetic analysis tool”
N. Mathur,
News-Medical.Net
,12-Dec-2021
"Omicron’s full impact will be felt in countries where fewer are vaccinated”
D. Cox,
The Guardian
,27-Nov-2021
"Plenty of Evidence for Recombination in SARS-CoV-2”
A. Olena,
The Scientist
,02-Sep-2021
"How the Delta variant took over”
D. Cox,
Wired
,21-Jun-2021
"Nature Papers Present Nautilus Genome, Tool to Analyze Single-Cell Data, More”
Staff,
GenomeWeb
,12-May-2021
"New tools enable rapid analysis of coronavirus sequences and tracking of variants"
T. Stephens,
UCSC Newscenter
,10-May-2021
Also covered by:
MedicalXPress
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EurekAlert
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Technology Networks
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ScienMag
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LabManager
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Santa Cruz Tech Beat
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LabMedica
"Ultrafast platform enables real-time tracking of COVID-19 strains for contact tracing”
N. Gallagher,
The Academic Times
,10-May-2021
"Researchers identify novel SARS-CoV-2 variant unregistered on genomic sequence databases”
S. S. Dutta,
News-Medical.Net
,07-Apr-2021
"The hunt for COVID-19 genomes that could worsen pandemic”
L. Krieger,
Mercury News
,03-Jan-2021
"PLOS Papers on SARS-CoV-2 Phylogenies, Swiss Influenza Spread, Infant Meningitis in Ethiopia"
Staff,
GenomeWeb
,23-Nov-2020
"2019 Update: NVIDIA's Growing Genomics Ecosystem"
F. Foertter,
NVIDIA blog
,12-Feb-2020
"Genetic Similarities Uncovered between Species That Use Echolocation"
C. Young,
Interesting Engineering
,04-Oct-2019
"Microsoft unveils genomics innovation and new partners at ASHG 2018"
G. Miller,
Microsoft Industry Blogs
,15-Oct-2018
"Darwin: a genomics co-processor provides up to 15,000x acceleration on long read assembly"
A. Coyler,
The Morning Paper
,19-Apr-2018
"The Future Of Biology Is Full-Stack"
J. Butler,
Eclipse Ventures blog
,06-Mar-2018
"Unwinding Moore's Law from Genomics with Co-Design"
N. Hemsoth,
The Next Platform
,08-Feb-2017