The Center for Genome Sciences (CCG in Spanish) of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM in Spanish) is located in Cuernavaca, Morelos and is part of the Campus Morelos of the UNAM. The CCG has its origins in the Research Center on Nitrogen Fixation (CIFN in Spanish) whose facilities were inaugurated in 1981. At the end of 2004 with the purpose of promoting research in genome sciences and reinforcing the use of genomic tools, our research center changed its name to CCG.

The genome sciences (also called genomics) are the set of sciences and techniques dedicated to the comprehensive study of the functioning, content, evolution and origin of genomes. Knowledge derived from molecular biology, biochemistry, computer science, statistics, mathematics, and physics, among others, is used. The development of genomics has contributed to the advance of different fields of science examples being medicine, agriculture, forensic science, and the evolutionary history of living beings including that of man. The knowledge and understanding of genomes also allow for future applications such as synthetic biology or the editing of genomes.