CAP TODAY Pathology/Laboratory Medicine/Laboratory Management
October 2019—The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation has approved Thermo Fisher Scientific’s Applied Biosystems Precision ID System mtDNA analysis solution for use by forensic laboratories to generate mitochondrial DNA profiles for submission to the U.S. National DNA Index System CODIS database.
The Precision ID mtDNA Whole Genome Panel is part of an NGS-based system that includes the Ion GeneStudio S5 System, the Ion Chef System for automated library and template generation, and forensically relevant Precision ID panels for mtDNA analysis. The solution also includes the Applied Biosystems Converge Software NGS Data Analysis module, which automates mitochondrial DNA analysis by leveraging optimized base calling, phylogenetically guided alignment, and quality filtering algorithms.