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A national workgroup convened by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention identified principles and made recommendations for standardizing the description of sequence data contained within the variant file generated during the course of clinical next
As the speed and quality of different analytical platforms increase, it is more common to collect data across multiple biological domains in parallel (i.e., genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, and metabolomics). There is a growing interest in algorithms
Justin M. Zook, Marc L. Salit, Lisa V. Kalman, Mickey Williams, Vivekananda Datta, Jin-Yeong Han
Characterized reference materials (RM) are needed for test development and validation, quality control procedures and proficiency testing to assure the quality of clinical laboratory tests. In this article, we review the development and characterization of
Justin Zook, John G. Cleary, Len Trigg, Francisco De La Vega
To evaluate and compare the performance of variant calling methods and confidence scores, comparisons between a test call set and a "gold standard" need to be carried out. Unfortunately, these comparisons are not straightforward with the current Variant
Different genomic technologies have been applied to cell line authentication, but only one method (short tandem repeat profiling) has been the subject of a comprehensive standard (ASN-0002). Here we discuss the power of this document, and why standards
David McClatchy III, Elizabeth Rizzo, wendy wells, Jeeseong C. Hwang, keith paulson, Brian Pogue, Stephen Kanick
Sub-diffusive structured light imaging has been shown to accurately and quantitatively map the reduced scattering coefficient and the phase function backscatter parameter in a wide-field geometry. This study shows the first the experimental imaging of
Justin M. Zook, Marc L. Salit, Russ B. Altman, Arend Sidow, Rachel Goldfeder, Euan Ashley, Elizabeth Mansfield
The Precision Medicine Initiative (PMI) is a national effort in the United States to enable a new era of medicine through research, technology, and policies that empower patients, researchers, and providers to work together toward development of
Hua-Jun He, Jamie L. Almeida, Steven Lund, Carolyn R. Steffen, Steven J. Choquette, Kenneth D. Cole
NIST Standard Reference Material (SRM®) 2373 was developed to improve the measurements of the HER2 gene amplification in DNA samples. SRM® 2373 consists of genomic DNA extracted from five breast cancer cell lines with different amounts of amplification of
Justin M. Zook, James Priest, Rachel Goldfeder, Megan Grove, Daryl Waggott, Matthew Wheeler, Euan Ashley, Marc L. Salit
As next-generation sequencing is becoming routinely applied to clinical care, the predictive characteristics and limitations of whole exome and whole genome sequencing need to be well-understood. The Genome in a Bottle Consortium has recently published a
Justin M. Zook, Hemang M. Parikh, Desu Chen, Hariharan K. Iyer, Marc L. Salit, Wolfgang Losert
The human genome contains variants ranging in size from small single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) to large structural variants (SVs). While high-quality benchmark small variant calls have recently been developed by the Genome in a Bottle Consortium, no
BACKGROUND: A 3.4kb deletion (3.4kbΔ) in mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) found in histologically normal prostate biopsy specimens has been reported to be a biomarker for the increased probability of prostate cancer. Increased mtDNA copy number is also reported
Justin M. Zook, Anil Patwardhan, Marc L. Salit, Carlos Bustamante, Euan Ashley, Michael Snyder, John West, Richard Chen
Exome sequencing is increasingly used for the clinical evaluation of genetic disease, yet accuracy and coverage in medically interpretable parts of the genome remains under-characterized. We evaluate recently developed exome sequencing platforms in the
Reference Materials are well-characterized, homogeneous, and stable samples that can be used to understand measurement performance. The Genome in a Bottle Consortium is developing whole human genome DNA Reference Materials from large batches of DNA
Charles H. Camp, Young J. Lee, John M. Heddleston, Christopher M. Hartshorn, Angela R. Hight Walker, Jeremy N. Rich, Justin D. Lathia, Marcus T. Cicerone
We have developed a coherent Raman imaging platform using broadband coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering (BCARS) that provides an unprecedented combination of speed, sensitivity, and spectral breadth. The system utilizes a unique configuration of laser