FDA’s Office of Health Informatics is excited to announce that precisionFDA, a secure cloud-based collaborative platform for advancing regulatory science though analysis of large biological datasets, has won a 2019 FedHealthIT Innovation award. PrecisionFDA was nominated and selected for this award from a group of peers. Investigators can use precisionFDA to host and collaborate on large datasets using multi-omics technology. To learn more about the platform, and how it might support your work, visit: https://go.usa.gov/xmMuU.
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NGS has revolutionized clinical microbiology by offering new ways to identify and surveil pathogens without prior knowledge of the target. One popular approach is 16S rRNA and ITS amplicon sequencing, which targets specific microbial markers. But studies are increasingly incorporating shotgun metagenomics, a technique that sequences all DNA from a sample without targeting specific microbial markers. This approach allows more detailed taxonomic classification, detection...Today, 06:46 AM -
Tumors contain complex mixtures of cell populations that evolve in response to treatment and host-specific factors. Tissue biopsies provide only static snapshots of a tumor’s state. But what if we could follow that evolution over time using a minimally invasive technique?
Liquid biopsies can detect tumor-derived material circulating in the bloodstream, providing a way to study treatment response, detect emerging resistance, and discover new biomarkers. Circulating...10-14-2026, 09:55 AM