Nancy Hansen, PhD

Senior Research Scientist

nancyhansenjhu.edu

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
The Genome In A Bottle HG002 assembly-based variant benchmark set enables comprehensive benchmarking of small and structural variants
bioRxiv, October 1, 2026
Olson ND … Hansen NF, Koren S, Rhie A … Phillippy AM, Zook JM