The partners will join the initiative's All of Us research program, which is gathering genetic, health, lifestyle, and environmental information from volunteers.
The release has been accompanied by acute interest from the genomics community, which views the resource as a "game changer" for anyone working in human genetics.
Researchers developed a gene expression-based classifier for four gastric cancer subtypes and found that some are associated with better outcomes than others.
Whatever practices you use for NGS assay development, validation, and performance monitoring, your goal is the same: Your results must be as accurate, precise, and consistent as possible.
That goal is within reach. And in this paper, we’ll show you how. By reading this white paper, you will learn:
· Why quality control is so challenging for NGS labs
· How reference materials may be the key to quality control
· The 9 key characteristics of sufficient NGS reference materials
· How to use QC metrics to monitor the health of your NGS assays
What’s been holding back more widespread adoption of liquid biopsy testing?
Lack of adequate circulating tumor DNA reference materials for developing and measuring safe, accurate and reproducible assays has been a challenge for clinical labs
Liquid biopsies are poised to revolutionize cancer diagnosis and therapy, but until now, advances in diagnostic technology - particularly at the low end of the sample input and sensitivity spectrum - have been hampered by the lack of ability of labs to reproducibly measure and assess the assay’s performance.
