University of California, Davis, officials celebrated on Wednesday the near-completion of the newest and largest building on campus, the $95 million, 225,000-square-foot Genome and Biomedical Sciences Facility.

When fully inhabited, the six-story building will house about 700 employees, 70 of them faculty members, and many of whom will be new to campus, according to Richard Michelmore, a professor of vegetable crops and director of the new Genome Center.

The Genome Center is devoted to the study of genomics, a new discipline in biology. A genome is the full set of DNA in an organism.

Also moving into the new building are the new Department of Biomedical Engineering and 30 researchers from the School of Medicine.

Two-thirds of the $95 million building will be paid by a proportion of government and private research grants that faculty are expected to obtain in the future. The School of Medicine paid $20 million of the building cost, and the Whitaker Foundation of Virginia, which supports biomedical engineering research and education, gave $10 million.