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'App-A-Thon' Aims To Create PrecisionFDA Software Library To Advance Next-Gen Sequencing

US FDA is challenging stakeholders to develop apps that users of its precisionFDA platform can leverage to advance next-generation sequencing technology. Results from the competition will be announced by Commissioner Robert Califf next month in Washington, DC.

In its bid to advance next-generation sequencing technology, US FDA is encouraging software developers to enter a competition to develop apps for the agency's precisionFDA NGS data-sharing platform.

The presicionFDA portal was launched late last year as a tool to allow researchers to share information on NGS data...

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