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Interdisciplinary NIST Team Claims qPCR Improvements Using Unusual Math Tweaks
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A recent study showed that a method called affine transformation can be used to increase the number of true positive qPCR samples detected.

NIST Creating Reference Material for SARS-CoV-2 Diagnostic Assay Developers
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The agency is providing the material freely and asking for feedback, so it can fix possible problems before more widely disseminating it to labs and companies.

New Products Posted to GenomeWeb: Centogene, NIST, GeneDx

New Products Posted to GenomeWeb: Illumina, NIST, Horizon Discovery, More

Genome In a Bottle Consortium Releases Structural Variant Calling Benchmark Data
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The public-private partnership has published a paper on a list of indels larger than 50 bp that is already being used to develop new methods.

Jan 21, 2020

FNIH Team Selects Cancer Biomarkers in Phase I of Liquid Biopsy Reference Standards Project
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May 24, 2019

Multi-Site Study Tests Power of Commercial Reference Materials in Comparing Liquid Biopsy Assays
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Mar 12, 2019

GA4GH Benchmarking Team Releases Best Practices for Comparing Germline Variant Calls

Mar 8, 2017

NIST, ATCC Develop STR-Based Method to Identify Contamination of Mouse Cell Lines
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Oct 18, 2016

Genome In A Bottle Consortium Developing New Reference Materials, Variant Call Sets
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Oct 11, 2016

NIST Team Explores Alternative to Graphene for Nanopore Sequencing
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Jul 19, 2016

ATCC Inks Validation Deal With NIST for Mouse Cell Line Verification

Jul 14, 2016

SeraCare, NIST Partner on CtDNA Reference Standards for Dx

Mar 2, 2016

NIST, Stanford Study Underscores Need for Sequencing Standards

Feb 25, 2016

White House Announces Efforts to Accelerate Precision Medicine Initiative

Jan 21, 2016

NIST Team Aims to Develop Graphene Nanopore Sequencing Tech
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Dec 15, 2015

Researchers Assess Variant Calling Pipelines Using Genome in a Bottle 'Gold Standard'
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Aug 7, 2015

10X Genomics Provides First Look at Data From NIST Reference Samples
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May 15, 2015

NIST, Genome in a Bottle Release First Reference Material for Assessing Genome Sequencing

Feb 25, 2014

DDC Medical, NIST Ink Deal to Commercialize Mouse Cell Line Authentication

Nov 21, 2013

GenomeWeb Feature: Slow but Steady, Molecular Tools Make Their Way into Criminal Forensics

Sep 24, 2013

Team Shows Proof of Concept for Tag Nanopore Sequencing; Genia Plans Commercial Release in Late 2014
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Sep 19, 2013

NIST, Applied Research Associates Develop Method to Purify DNA from Crude Samples for STR Analysis
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Jul 2, 2013

Genome in a Bottle Consortium to Release Reference Material in Early '14; First Genotypes Posted
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Jun 21, 2013

NIST, Stanford Launch Biomedical Measurement Science Program; Partners Include Life Tech, Agilent

Breaking News
The Scan

CDC Calls Delta "Variant of Concern"

CNN reports the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention now considers the Delta variant of SARS-CoV-2 to be a "variant of concern."

From FDA to Venture Capital

Former FDA Commissioner Stephen Hahn is taking a position at a venture capital firm, leading some ethicists to raise eyebrows, according to the Washington Post.

Consent Questions

Nature News writes that there are questions whether informed consent was obtained for some submissions to a database of Y-chromosome profiles.

Cell Studies on Multimodal Single-Cell Analysis, Coronaviruses in Bats, Urban Microbiomes

In Cell this week: approach to analyze multimodal single-cell genomic data, analysis of bat coronaviruses, and more.