AMP-Led Workgroup Publishes Guidelines for Validating NGS Bioinformatics Pipelines

Nov 16, 2017

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NEW YORK (GenomeWeb) – A workgroup led by the Association for Molecular Pathology with representation from the College of American Pathologists and American Medical Informatics Association has published recommendations and guidelines for validating next-generation sequencing bioinformatics pipelines to improve the accuracy of NGS-based testing.

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