UCSD
UBIC
Company
Bioinformatics
100

UCSD's main library is named after this renowned children's author.

Who is Theodor Seuss Geisel (Dr. Seuss)?

100

What is one event the industry relations committee had this year?

interview prep, resume building, cover letter, cold emailing, intro to industry

100

This company is not based in the western United States.

What is Exact Science, Abbott? In Madison, Wisconsin?

What is Eli Lilly? In Indianapolis, Indiana? 

100

This technique was the gold standard for DNA sequencing before NGS.

What is Sanger Sequencing?

200

UCSD's engineering school is named after this husband-and-wife duo, who have been long-time benefactors.

Who are Irwin and Joan Jacobs?

200

This is what UBIC stands for.

What is Undergraduate Bioinformatics Club?

200

This company launched a specific sequencing system utilizing "Sequencing by Binding" (SBB) technology to deliver exceptionally high accuracy.

What is PacBio? Is it Onso system?

200

This was the year that the Human Genome Project was completed.

When is 2003?

300

This is UCSD's current undergraduate bioinformatics ranking (US News).

What is 2?

300

This on-campus restaurant sponsors UBIC.

What is Fan Fan?

300

This is the company furthest from UCSD.


What was PacBio in San Francisco?

300

This biotechnology company pioneered CRISPR-based gene editing, and its co-founder later received a Nobel Prize in Chemistry for transforming genetic engineering.

What is CRISPR Therapeutics/Emmanuelle Charpentier?

400

UCSD was first founded as a graduate school for 3 fields of study. Name one of these fields.

What are physics, chemistry, and earth science?

400

Name any professor that participated in a 2026 UBIC event.

Who are Xin Jin, Dominik Wodarz, Benjamin Lee Smarr, Neville Bethel, Vineet Bafna, Ashley Juavinett, and etc?

400

Name one specific product, test, or service produced by each company.

Illumina: MiSeq, NextSeq, NovaSeq...

Exact: Cologuard, Oncodetect, Riskguard...

PacBio: Sequel II System, Revio System, Onso Sequencing System, SMRTbell Library Prep Kits, HiFi Sequencing Services

Eli Lilly: Mounjaro, Zepbound, Trulicity, Humalog, Insulin

400

How many 6-mers are in a 50524 sequence length?

Is it 50519?

500

A total number of departments have had Bioinformatics as a specialty.

Is it 4?

500

How many bioinformatics workshops are held each quarter?

Is it 4? 

500

This pharmaceutical company has partnered with AI-driven biotech companies to accelerate genomic medicine and drug discovery pipelines.

What is Eli Lilly?

500

This graph-based data structure uses overlapping strings of fixed length k to represent DNA sequences and is the foundational framework for most modern next-generation sequencing (NGS) genome assemblers.

What is a De Bruijn graph?

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