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The certification of electrophoretic mobility/zeta potential of silica particles in aqueous solution: ERM-FD306/SRM 1993

October 23, 2020
Author(s)
Yannic Ramaye, Vikram Kestens, J. Charoud-Got, S. Mazoua, G. Auclair, Tae Joon Cho, Blaza Toman, Vincent A. Hackley, T. Linsinger
This report describes the production of ERM-FD306/SRM 1993, silica nanoparticles suspended in a borate buffer, certified for electrophoretic mobility and zeta potential measurements. This material was produced following ISO Guide 17034:2016 and is

Certification of Standard Reference Material(R) 955d, Toxic Elements and Metabolites in Frozen Human Blood

October 15, 2020
Author(s)
Lee L. Yu, Karen E. Murphy, Colleen E. Bryan Sallee, Thomas W. Vetter, Robert C. Hagwood, George C. Caceres, Stephen E. Long, J M. Jarrett, M A. Franklin, J Castro Georgi, D M. Jones, Robert Jones, Z Li, Y L. Sommer, D S. Tevis, K Wallon, C D. Ward, M Maras, S Erdahl, C Gilmer, M Wermers, H Woldeysus, K F. Mehigan, M Morrissette, Christopher D. Palmer, Patrick J. Parsons
Standard Reference Material (SRM) 955d is intended for use in validating analytical methods for measuring toxic elements and mercury species in human blood, and in value assigning locally produced control materials analyzed using the validated methods. A

A Diploid Assembly-based Benchmark for Variants in The Major Histocompatibility Complex

September 22, 2020
Author(s)
Justin M. Zook, Justin M. Wagner, Chen-Shan Chin, Qiandong Zeng, Alexander Dilthey, Tobias Marschall, Mikko Rautiainen, Erik Garrison, Shilpa Garg
Most human genomes are characterized by aligning individual reads to the reference genome, but accurate long reads and linked reads now enable us to construct accurate, phased de novo assemblies. We focus on a medically important, highly variable, 5

A Reference High-Pressure CH4 Adsorption Isotherm for Zeolite Y: Results of an Interlaboratory Study

September 11, 2020
Author(s)
Huong Giang T. Nguyen, Christopher M. Sims, Blaza Toman, Jarod C. Horn, Roger D. van Zee, Mathias Thommes, Riaz Ahmad, Joeri F. Denayer, Gino V. Baron, Emilio Napolitano, Marek Bielewski, Enzo Mangano, Stefano Brandani, Broom Darren, M.J. Benham, Anne Dailly, Frieder Dreisbach, Satyannarayana Edubilli, Sasidhar Gumma, Jens Mollmer, Marcus Lange, Mi Tian, Tim Mays, T. Shigeoka, S. Yamakita, M. Hakuman, Y. Nakada, K. Nakai, Junyoung Hwang, Ronny Pini, Huan Jiang, Armin Ebner, Marjorie Nicholson, James Ritter, Judit Farrando Perez, Carlos Cuadrado, Joaquin Silvestre Albero, Christos Tampaxis, Theodore Steriotis, Daniela Rimnacova, Martina Svabova, Maryna Vorokhta, Hai Wang, Eric Bovens, Nicolas Heymans, Guy de Weireld
This paper reports the results of an international interlaboratory study led by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) on the measurement of high-pressure surface excess methane adsorption isotherms on NIST Reference Material RM 8850

Metrological Tools for the Reference Materials and Reference Instruments of the NIST Material Measurement Laboratory

July 15, 2020
Author(s)
Carlos R. Beauchamp, Johanna Camara, Jennifer Carney, Steven J. Choquette, Kenneth D. Cole, Paul C. DeRose, David L. Duewer, Michael Epstein, Margaret C. Kline, Katrice Lippa, Enrico Lucon, Karen W. Phinney, Maria Polakoski, Antonio Possolo, Katherine E. Sharpless, John R. Sieber, Blaza Toman, Michael R. Winchester, Donald Windover
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), formerly the National Bureau of Standards, was established by the U.S. Congress in 1901 and charged with establishing a measurement foundation to facilitate U.S. and international commerce. NIST

A robust benchmark for detection of germline large deletions and insertions

June 15, 2020
Author(s)
Justin Zook, Nathanael David Olson, Marc Salit, Fritz Sedlazeck
New technologies and analysis methods are enabling genomic structural variants (SVs) to be detected with ever-increasing accuracy, resolution and comprehensiveness. To help translate these methods to routine research and clinical practice, we developed a

Assembly and annotation of an Ashkenazi human reference genome

June 2, 2020
Author(s)
Justin M. Zook, Justin M. Wagner, Nathanael D. Olson, Steven L. Salzberg, Alaina Shumate, Aleksey V. Zimin, Daniela Puiu, Mihaela Pertea, Marc Salit
Thousands of experiments and studies use the human reference genome as a resource each year. This single reference genome, GRCh38, is a mosaic created from a small number of individuals, representing a very small sample of the human population. There is a

CERTIFICATION OF SRM 640f LINE POSITION AND LINE SHAPE STANDARD FOR POWDER DIFFRACTION

May 31, 2020
Author(s)
David R. Black, Marcus Mendenhall, Albert Henins, James Filliben, James Cline
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) certifies a suite of Standard Reference Materials (SRMs) to be used to evaluate specific aspects of instrument performance of both X-ray and neutron powder diffractometers. This report describes SRM

NIST Reference Materials: Their Purpose and Their Future

March 15, 2020
Author(s)
Steven J. Choquette, David L. Duewer, Katherine E. Sharpless
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), formerly the National Bureau of Standards, was established by the U.S. Congress in 1901 and charged with establishing a measurement foundation to facilitate U.S. and international commerce. This

Characterization of Size and Aggregation for CNC Dispersions Separated by Asymmetrical-flow Field-flow Fractionation

December 9, 2019
Author(s)
Jeremie Parot, Arnab K. Mukherjee, Martin Couillard, Maohui Chen, Shan Zou, Vincent A. Hackley, Linda Johnston
Cellulose nanocrystals derived from various types of cellulose biomass have significant potential for applications that take advantage of their availability from renewable natural resources and their high mechanical strength, biocompatibility and ease of

Enhancing the Accuracy of Measurement of Small Molecule Organic Biomarkers

October 30, 2019
Author(s)
Tang Lin Teo, Katrice Lippa, Lindsey Mackay, Sharon Yong, Qinde Liu, Johanna Camara, Vincent Delatour, Tong Kooi Lee, Beatrice Lalere, Gavin O'Connor, Andr? Henrion, Megumi Kato, Jane L. Fernandes, Masahiko Numata, Ha-Jeong Kwon, Ji-Seon Jeong, Bei Xu, Jintana Nammoommoy, Dewei Song, Wagner Wollinger
Over two decades, the Organic Analysis Working Group (OAWG) of the Consultative Committee for Amount of Substance (CCQM) has organised a number of comparisons for clinically relevant small molecule organic biomarkers. These comparisons are hinged upon the

Experimental Variation of Magnification Calibration for Localization Microscopy

September 15, 2019
Author(s)
Craig R. Copeland, Bojan R. Ilic, Samuel M. Stavis
We study the experimental variation of a localization microscope due to temporal and thermal factors, enabling elucidation of the discrepancy between transillumination brightfield and epi-illumination fluorescence of an aperture array for magnification
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