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Preparation and calibration of a Protactinium-231 reference material

August 22, 2019
Author(s)
Richard Essex, Ross W. Williams, Kerri C. Treinen, Ronald Colle, Ryan P. Fitzgerald, Raphael Galea, John Keightley, Jerome LaRosa, Lizbeth Laureano-Perez, Svetlana Nour, Leticia Pibida
A 231Pa reference material has been characterized for amount of Pa. This reference material is primarily intended for calibration of 233Pa tracers produced for 231Pa - 235U model age measurements associated with nuclear forensics and nuclear safeguards

High-coverage, long-read sequencing of Chinese trio reference samples

June 14, 2019
Author(s)
Justin M. Zook, Nathanael D. Olson, Marc L. Salit, Aaron Wenger, Chunlin Xiao, Robert Sebra
Genome In a Bottle (GIAB) is a consortium hosted by the National Institute of Standards and Technology whose primary objective is the development and characterization of human genomic reference materials. The consortium includes representatives from

Certification of Standard Reference Material 3389 Ginsenoside Calibration Solution

May 10, 2019
Author(s)
Walter B. Wilson, Lane C. Sander, Benjamin J. Place, James H. Yen
Standard Reference Material (SRM) 3389 is intended as a calibration solution for use for the determination of ginsenosides in natural matrix samples. A unit of SRM 3389 consists of two different ampule solutions: (1) four ampules of a six-component mixture

Reference Material 8634: Ethylene Tetrafluoroethylene for Particle Size Distribution and Morphology

May 1, 2019
Author(s)
Dean C. Ripple, Srivalli Telikepalli, Kristen L. Steffens, Michael J. Carrier, Christopher B. Montgomery, Nicholas W. Ritchie, John Lu
Reference Material (RM) 8634 is a NIST particle standard produced from abraded ethylene tetrafluoroethylene (ETFE), a chemically inert polymer, that will help standardize and allow more accurate monitoring of subvisible proteinaceous particles in

Bridging communities in the field of nanomedicine

April 30, 2019
Author(s)
Blanka Halamoda-Kenzaoui, Simon Baconnier, Thierry Bastogne, Didier Bazile, Patrick Boisseau, Gerrit Borchard, Sven E. Borgos, Luigi Calzolai, Karin Cederbrant, Gabriella di Felice, Tiziana Di Francesco, Marina Dobrovolskaia, Rog?rio Gaspar, Bel?n Gracia, Vincent A. Hackley, Lada Leyens, Neill Liptrott, Margriet Park, Anil Patri, Gert Roebben, Matthias Roesslein, Ren? Th?rmer, Patricia Urb?n L?pez, Val?rie Zuang, Susanne Bremer-Hoffmann
The workshop "Bridging communities in the field of nanomedicine" was hosted by the European Commission Joint Research Centre on 27-28 September 2017. It gathered experts from regulatory bodies, research institutions and industry to discuss the main

An open resource for accurately benchmarking small variant and reference calls

April 1, 2019
Author(s)
Justin M. Zook, Jennifer H. McDaniel, Marc L. Salit, Nathanael D. Olson, Justin M. Wagner
Benchmark small variant calls are required for developing, optimizing and assessing the performance of sequencing and bioinformatics methods. Here, as part of the Genome in a Bottle (GIAB) Consortium, we apply a reproducible, cloud-based pipeline to

Electric Field Gradient Reference Material for Scanning Probe Microscopy

March 31, 2019
Author(s)
Joseph Kopanski, Lin You
Any eSPM measurement of a spatially varying electric field at the surface of a sample has a large uncertainty due to the unknown details of the tip shape near the surface. We have designed an electric field gradient reference sample to provide an

Best practices for benchmarking germline small-variant calls in human genomes

March 11, 2019
Author(s)
Justin M. Zook, Marc L. Salit
Standardized benchmarking approaches are required to assess the accuracy of variants called from sequence data. Although variant- calling tools and the metrics used to assess their performance continue to improve, important challenges remain. Here, as part

Impedance tuning with photoconductors to 40 GHz

January 22, 2019
Author(s)
Jasper A. Drisko, Ari D. Feldman, Franklyn J. Quinlan, James C. Booth, Nathan D. Orloff, Christian J. Long
Light has been widely used to control a variety of microwave devices, including switches, antennas, and detectors. Here, we present a photoconductive device integrated into a coplanar waveguide to tune complex impedances at microwave frequencies with

CrowdVariant: a crowdsourcing approach to curate copy number variants

January 6, 2019
Author(s)
Justin M. Zook, Marc L. Salit, Peyton Greenside, Ryan Poplin, Mark DePristo, Madeleine Cule
Copy number variants (CNVs) are an important type of genetic variation and play a causal role in many diseases. However, they are also notoriously difficult to identify accurately from next-generation sequencing (NGS) data. For larger CNVs, genotyping

Optimization of Folch, Bligh-Dyer, and Matyash Sample-to-Extraction Solvent Ratios for Mammalian Cell- and Plasma-Based Lipidomics Studies

December 11, 2018
Author(s)
John Bowden, Candice Z. Ulmer, Christina Jones, Richard A. Yost, Timothy J. Garrett
In order to investigate changes in the lipidome, analysis by ultra-high performance liquid chromatography - high resolution mass spectrometry (UHPLC-HRMS) typically requires the extraction of lipid content from sample matrices using optimized, matrix

NIST Handbook 150-8, NVLAP Acoustical Testing Services

November 19, 2018
Author(s)
Kari K. Harper
NIST Handbook 150-8 presents technical requirements and guidance for the accreditation of laboratories under the National Voluntary Laboratory Accreditation Program (NVLAP) Acoustical Testing Services program. It is intended for information and use by
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