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Standards

Reference data

News and Updates

120 Years of Data at NIST

In celebration of the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Journal of Physical and Chemical Reference Data (JPCRD), two NIST scientists have published a

Projects and Programs

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Genome in a Bottle

Ongoing
Consortium hosted by NIST dedicated to authoritative characterization of benchmark human genomes. Sign up for General GIAB and Analysis Team email lists. Public
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Water Measurement Science

Ongoing
The Material Measurement Lab provides measurements, standards, and data to ensure availability and sustainability of our water resources. MML supports accurate

Publications

Benchmarking challenging small variants with linked and long reads

Author(s)
Justin Wagner, Nathanael David Olson, Lindsay Harris, Marc L. Salit, Fritz Sedlazeck, Chunlin Xiao, Justin Zook
Genome in a Bottle benchmarks are widely used to help validate clinical sequencing pipelines and develop variant calling and sequencing methods. Here we use

Software

ThermoML Opener

PurposeA tool for direct viewing of ThermoML files which include data and metadata. ThermoML files conform to the new XML-based ThermoML IUPAC standard