Nancy Hansen, PhD

Senior Research Scientist

nancy.hansennih.gov

Nancy earned her Bachelor's degree at Princeton University, majoring in Chemistry, and then completed a PhD in physical chemistry at Stanford University. After many years working at the National Human Genome Research Institute, she joined the Computer Science department at Johns Hopkins University, where she will continue to work on diploid genome assembly and polishing.

Software

GQC (Genome Quality Checker)

GQC is a benchmarking tool for evaluating sequence reads and assemblies against a genome benchmark.
News posts

The Q100 preprint!

September 22, 2025

The Q100 project

October 31, 2023
Publications