genomics


January 25, 2019

UAMS Researcher Joins International Colleagues in Journal Science Urging Open Access to Genomics Data

David Robinson

David Ussery, Ph.D., conducting a sequencing workshop. (file photo)

Scientific discovery could be accelerated with more open access to genomic data, says an article in the latest journal Science by a group of research leaders from across the globe that includes David W. Ussery, Ph.D., at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS). “We argue that the publicly available data should be treated…


March 31, 2017

Genomics Workshop Ignites Students’ Passion for Research

Ben Boulden

March 31, 2017 | A two-day workshop at UAMS made undergraduate student Daniel Games eager to get to something most people want to avoid — viruses. “I didn’t expect to get this much hands-on work,” Games said. “That was great. The workshop lectures were interesting, too, but today was all hands-on software work. We got…


December 4, 2015

UAMS Becomes Home to Cancer Imaging Archive for NCI

Ben Boulden

Dec. 4, 2015 | The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) has become home to The Cancer Imaging Archive of the National Cancer Institute (NCI) with the transfer to UAMS of more than 40 terabytes of data from the archive’s former home at Washington University in St. Louis. “Through the archive, UAMS has important linkages…


UAMS Becomes Home to Cancer Imaging Archive for National Cancer Institute

Ben Boulden

LITTLE ROCK – The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) has become home to The Cancer Imaging Archive of the National Cancer Institute (NCI) with the transfer to UAMS of more than 40 terabytes of data from the archive’s former home at Washington University in St. Louis. “Through the archive, UAMS has important linkages…