{"id":218134,"date":"2025-07-17T06:32:53","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T11:32:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/nist-releases-trove-of-genetic-data-to-spur-cancer-research"},"modified":"2025-07-17T06:32:53","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T11:32:53","slug":"nist-releases-trove-of-genetic-data-to-spur-cancer-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/nist-releases-trove-of-genetic-data-to-spur-cancer-research","title":{"rendered":"NIST Releases Trove of Genetic Data to Spur Cancer Research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nist-releases-trove-of-genetic-data-to-spur-cancer-research3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>To analyze the genome of pancreatic cancer cells, NIST researchers used 13 distinct state-of-the-art whole genome measurement technologies, some of which were only recently developed.<\/p>\n<p>Each method identifies the sequence of DNA nucleotides \u2014 adenine (A), cytosine \u00a9, guanine (G) and thymine (T) \u2014 in an individual\u2019s genome. However, the methods produce slightly varying results and have different strengths and weaknesses.<\/p>\n<p>NIST\u2019s dataset contains separate results for each of the 13 techniques used to sequence the cancer genome. Scientists performing their analysis can compare their data with NIST\u2019s. If there are discrepancies, they can then determine whether their equipment is working properly and remedy the problem if not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To analyze the genome of pancreatic cancer cells, NIST researchers used 13 distinct state-of-the-art whole genome measurement technologies, some of which were only recently developed. Each method identifies the sequence of DNA nucleotides \u2014 adenine (A), cytosine \u00a9, guanine (G) and thymine (T) \u2014 in an individual\u2019s genome. However, the methods produce slightly varying results [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-218134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218134\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}