How wonderful to see a South Korean win the big prize! I was incredibly lucky to have had some time to speak to her throughout the Ho-Am ceremony day in Seoul this past June - she was unassuming and pensive, and gave me some tips about the Korean language!

This Monday (10/28) at 5pm (Eastern Daylight Time): Info session about our bioinformatics/genomics PhD program! I will describe the basics and take your questions.

Interactive circos plots now on cBioportal! Superb work from Dominik Glodzik and SEHI L’YI.

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Delighted to see my MIT graduate student Yifan Yifan Zhao give a terrific thesis defense. She developed an algorithm for identifying CNVs in single cells (coming out in Nat Comm) and applied it to brain development (under review at Nat).

To find a comprehensive set of somatic variants accurately, an individual-specific genome assembly is needed. Glad to be collaborating with Haoyu Cheng and Heng Li for this new version of hifiasm; Flora Qu in the lab did extensive benchmarking.

Thank you Cancer Grand Challenges for your support of the tissue specificity project over the last 5 years! It was a privilege to be collaborating with many wonderful colleagues on the question of tissue specificty of cancer driver mutations, as well summarized in this magazine.

I am deeply saddened to hear of Atul's passing. I got to know him when he was finishing up his PhD in the HST program at MIT. What energy he had then, and how much he has accomplished at Stanford and then at UCSF!

Happy to have been part of the 4D Nucleome program. So much data for understanding the 3D organization of the DNA in the nucleus--all freely available, on the portal that my lab has developed: data.4dnucleome.org

A Perspective piece on "The Somatic Mosaicism across Human Tissues Network", now published. Here is the description of the project from Tim Coorens

One definition of consciousness is being responsible, careful, and the desire to do one's work or duty thoroughly. It is not surprising but is extremely worrisome.