Operationalizing Quality Assurance for Clinical Illumina Somatic Next-Generation Sequencing Pipelines

Quality assurance is essential for precision oncology workflows, in particular in the clinical setting. However, due to numerous variations in laboratory and bioinformatics pipelines, quality assurance practices remain non-standardized, often ad hoc, and lacking longitudinal tracking. A selected review of existing software was performed for quality control of Illumina next-generation sequencing data, focusing specifically on generalizable tools that can be integrated into any bioinformatics workflow to easily develop a quality assurance workflow with longitudinal tracking.
Source: Journal of Molecular Diagnostics - Category: Pathology Authors: Tags: Technical Advance Source Type: research