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Bioscience

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Inter-tool analysis of a NIST dataset for assessing baseline nucleic acid sequence screening

July 10, 2025
Author(s)
Tyler Laird, Kevin Flyangolts, Craig Bartling, Bryan Gemler, Jacob Beal, Tom Mitchell, Steven T. Murphy, Jens Berlips, Leonard Foner, Ryan Doughty, Felix Qunitana, Michael Nute, Todd J. Treangen, Gene D. Godbold, Krista Ternus, Tessa Alexanian, Nicole Wheeler, Samuel Forry
Nucleic acid synthesis is a dual-use technology that can benefit fields such as biology, medicine, and information storage. However, synthetic nucleic acids could also potentially be used negligently and ultimately cause harm, or be used with malicious

Cybersecurity of Genomic Data

December 20, 2023
Author(s)
Ronald Pulivarti, Natalia Globus, Frederick R. Byers, Justin Wagner, Justin Zook, Samantha Maragh, Jennifer McDaniel, Kevin Wilson, Martin Wojtyniak, Brett Kreider, Ann-Marie France, Sallie Edwards, Tommy Morris, Jared Sheldon, Scott Ross, Phillip Whitlow
Genomic data has enabled the rapid growth of the U.S. bioeconomy and is valuable to the individual, industry, and government because it has multiple intrinsic properties that in combination make it different from other types of high value data which

Reference Material 8376 Microbial Pathogen DNA Standards for Detection and Identification

June 1, 2022
Author(s)
Jason Kralj, Dieter Tourlousse, Monique Hunter, Erica Romsos, Blaza Toman, Peter Vallone, Scott Jackson
Reference Material (RM) 8376 is intended for NGS-based measurements quantitative to the chromosome. A unit of RM 8376 consists of 20 components (A-T, 19 bacteria and 1 human) each containing well-characterized DNA in 10 mmol/L Tris-HCl, 1 mmol/L EDTA pH 8

Cyberbiosecurity for biopharmaceutical products

February 8, 2021
Author(s)
Elizabeth Strychalski, Jennifer Mantla, Jayan Rammohan, Eugenia Romantseva, Reid D'Amico, Joel Welch, Leah R. Kauffman, Jim McCarthy, John E. Schiel, Jeffrey Baker, Kelley Rogers, Kelvin Lee
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