Preventing Common Next-Generation Sequencing (NGS) Testing Errors

Improve your NGS assay through review of proficiency testing/external quality assessment (PT/EQA) data.

Webinar Description

This webinar begins with PT/EQA data as potential sources of information about challenges in performing NGS, then expands to include categorization and discussion of recurring challenges found in somatic and germline NGS PT/EQA. It concludes with remedies to help further improve performance.

Webinar Objectives

• Use the NGS PT/EQA data to understand recurrent weaknesses of laboratories performing NGS assays
• Offer suggestions on how to mitigate the most common causes of unacceptable results on PT/EQA
• Share ideas to improve sensitivity and specificity of NGS assays

Webinar Speaker

Dr. Valentina Nardi, MD, FCAP

• Assistant Professor of pathology at Harvard Medical School
• Assistant Pathologist at Massachusetts General Hospital for Molecular genetic pathology, Hematopathology and Gastrointestinal pathology
• Member of CAP Molecular Oncology Committee
  
• Author, "Next-Generation Sequencing Somatic and Germline Assay Troubleshooting Guide Derived From Proficiency Testing Data
  

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