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Increasing Sexual Assault Kit Workflow Efficiency through Automation

Signature Science, a private Forensic DNA Laboratory based in Austin, Texas, validated a suite of robotics and associated methods for sexual assault kit processing in 2018 with the goal of increasing ...

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Validating Metagenomic Analyses through Simulated Direct and Indirect Healthcare-Related Pathogen Transmission Events

Signature Science’s work was presented by Krista Ternus at the Sequencing, Finishing, and Analysis in the Future Meeting held May 21-23, 2019.

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Signature Science Team awarded Phase 2 funding for IARPA’s Fun GCAT program

Researchers from Signature Science, Rice University, University of Maryland, Fraunhofer USA Center for Experimental Software Engineering, and ATUM will combine complementary expertise to further develop advanced computational tools to predict ...

Probabilistic Genotyping Brings Benefits to Casework

The interpretation of DNA mixtures continues to be a pervasive topic in the field of forensic DNA analysis. With the long awaited publication of the NIST MIX05 MIX13 study, and ...

Signature Science Awarded Contract to Support JPEO-CBRND’s Multi-Phase Chemical Agent Detector Program

Signature Science's MPCAD solution, named PHOENIX, will develop a field-level capability to identify and confirm the presence of chemicals at very low levels in gas, liquid and solid phases ...

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Stephen Turner, Ph.D. joins Signature Science, LLC as Senior Informatics S&T Advisor

Dr. Turner will apply his informatics and genomics expertise to the development of leading-edge forensic genomics solutions for national security, defense, and law enforcement challenges, such as cold case investigations.&...

SigSci’s Austin TX-based DNA Forensics Laboratory participated in an interlab study that demonstrated a high level of repeatability and reproducibility with STRmix™ probabilistic genotyping software.

Title: STRmix™ collaborative exercise on DNA mixture interpretation Authors: Jo-Anne Bright, Kevin Cheng, Zane Kerr, Catherine McGovern, Hannah Kelly, Tamyra R. Moretti, Michael A. Smith, Frederick R. Bieber, Bruce ...

Signature Science, LLC has been awarded a contract from Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to conduct a study of simulated pathogen transmission events in healthcare settings using metagenomic analyses

Researchers from Signature Science will evaluate and develop tools which can detect and follow the spread of specific bacteria and microbial communities between people and across surfaces in healthcare settings.

Signature Science-led team has been awarded a $2.3M contract from IARPA to develop novel forensic identification methods that will sequence protein instead of DNA to analyze forensic samples.

Researchers from Signature Science, University of North Texas Health Science Center, and The Ohio State University will combine their proteogenomic and investigative genetics expertise to develop a new method (called ...

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SigSci presents poster at 2nd ASM Conference on Rapid Applied Microbial Next-Generation Sequencing and Bioinformatic Pipelines

Title: Toward Rapid Sequenced-Based Detection and Characterization of Causative Agents of Bacteremia Authors: F. Curtis Hewitt, Stephanie L. Guertin, Krista L. Ternus, Kathleen Schulte, and Dana R. Kadavy Summary: High-throughput ...

Signature Science awarded contract from IARPA for the development of new computational tools to screen DNA sequences to detect biological threats

Researchers from Signature Science, Fraunhofer Center for Experimental Software Engineering, Macromoltek, University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies, Bioinformatics Core of the University of Virginia School of Medicine, and ...

Increasing Sexual Assault Kit Workflow Efficiency through Automation

Validating Metagenomic Analyses through Simulated Direct and Indirect Healthcare-Related Pathogen Transmission Events

Signature Science Team awarded Phase 2 funding for IARPA’s Fun GCAT program

Probabilistic Genotyping Brings Benefits to Casework

Signature Science Awarded Contract to Support JPEO-CBRND’s Multi-Phase Chemical Agent Detector Program

Stephen Turner, Ph.D. joins Signature Science, LLC as Senior Informatics S&T Advisor

SigSci’s Austin TX-based DNA Forensics Laboratory participated in an interlab study that demonstrated a high level of repeatability and reproducibility with STRmix™ probabilistic genotyping software.

Signature Science, LLC has been awarded a contract from Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to conduct a study of simulated pathogen transmission events in healthcare settings using metagenomic analyses

Signature Science-led team has been awarded a $2.3M contract from IARPA to develop novel forensic identification methods that will sequence protein instead of DNA to analyze forensic samples.

SigSci presents poster at 2nd ASM Conference on Rapid Applied Microbial Next-Generation Sequencing and Bioinformatic Pipelines

Signature Science awarded contract from IARPA for the development of new computational tools to screen DNA sequences to detect biological threats

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