This Week in PNAS: May 29, 2012

May 29, 2012

A paper appearing in the PNAS Early Edition from Uppsala University's Karolina Edlund et al. examines the accuracy of reported mutations in an analysis of the TP53 mutation database. Taking a data-driven approach to assess several independent quality criteria, Edlund and colleagues generated a quality score for each report contributing to the database.

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