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