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August 30, 2021

skater: An R package for SNP-Based Kinship Analysis, Testing, and Evaluation

Abstract: Motivation: SNP-based kinship analysis with genome-wide relationship estimation and IBD segment analysis methods produces results that often require further downstream processing and manipulation. A dedicated software package that consistently and intuitively implements this analysis functionality is needed. Results: Here we present the skater R package for SNP-based kinship analysis, testing, and... MORE
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July 15, 2021

Trace Explosives Sampling for Security Applications (TESSA) Study

Abstract: The detection of trace amounts of explosive materials is critical to the security at mass transit centers (e.g., airports and railway stations). In a typical screening process, a trap is used to probe a surface of interest to collect and transfer particulate residue to a detector for analysis. The collection... MORE
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Horizon: Validating Verogen’s ForenSeq® Kintelligence FGG Workflow

The Center for Advanced Genomics is validating the Verogen ForenSeq® Kintelligence workflow for the NDIS-approved MiSeq FGx® Sequencing System, targeting a fall 2021 offering to clients. ForenSeq Kintelligence is a new integrated forensic genetic genealogy (FGG) solution targeting forensically relevant markers along with ancestry, identity, and phenotype markers to estimate... MORE
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July 14, 2021

SigSci’s Center for Advanced Genomics Validating the Verogen ForenSeq® Kintelligence Workflow for Forensic Genetic Genealogy

New kit targets forensically relevant markers compatible with degraded and low-input DNA samples. AUSTIN, TEXAS – July 14, 2021 – Forensic scientists from the Center for Advanced Genomics (CAG) at Signature Science are validating the Verogen ForenSeq® Kintelligence workflow for the NDIS-approved MiSeq FGx® Sequencing System. ForenSeq Kintelligence, a new... MORE
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June 9, 2021

SigSci Develops R Package to Support Accurate U.S. COVID-19 Forecasting

Authors: VP Nagraj, Chris Hulme-Lowe, Stephanie L. Guertin, Stephen D. Turner Abstract: Infectious disease forecasting has been a useful tool for public health planning and messaging during the COVID-19 pandemic. In partnership with the CDC, the organizers of the COVID-19 Forecast Hub have created a mechanism for forecasters from academia, industry, and... MORE
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May 25, 2021

SigSci Awarded Contract to Develop Single-use Synthetic Opioid Detection System

AUSTIN, TEXAS – May 25, 2021 – The U.S. Navy has awarded a one-year, $292,814.70 contract to Signature Science for the development of a self-contained, single-use lateral flow immunoassay (LFA) system for the detection of synthetic opioids, such as fentanyl. First responders currently use procedures to detect synthetic opioids that... MORE
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May 17, 2021

IARPA extends support to Signature Science’s development of a laboratory-based model to predict the evolution...

AUSTIN, TEXAS – May 18, 2021– The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) has awarded a second phase contract extension to Signature Science, LLC to further the development of a laboratory-based model of viral evolution of pandemic viruses. Signature Science engineered non-replication competent SARS-CoV-2 vectors as proof-of-concept in the initial... MORE
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March 23, 2021

Milton B. Lee Joins Signature Science’s Managers Committee

AUSTIN, TEXAS — March 23, 2021 - Signature Science LLC is pleased to announce that Milton B. Lee, P.E., has joined its Managers Committee. In his accomplished career in the energy sector, Lee led CPS Energy in San Antonio as CEO and General Manager from 2002–2010 and served as COO,... MORE