{"id":82028,"date":"2017-06-29T09:30:08","date_gmt":"2017-06-29T09:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=8ea70339ee55971426a4399485f573a3"},"modified":"2017-06-29T09:30:08","modified_gmt":"2017-06-29T09:30:08","slug":"news-story-review-of-decision-support-tools-for-gmo-screening-published","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=82028","title":{"rendered":"News story: Review of decision support tools for GMO screening published"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The development and commercial use of Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs<\/abbr>) is subject to strict legal regulation in many countries around the world.<\/p>\n

Having appropriate methods and analytical approaches to detect, identify and quantify GMOs<\/abbr> is very important to enable the enforcement of legislation. To date, GMO<\/abbr> screening for enforcement purposes is mainly performed using PCR-based methods for the detection of specific DNA sequences. A large number of methods have been developed, with many being subject to inter-laboratory validation and made available in the public domain. However, having detection methods in isolation is not sufficient to cope with the increasing number and complexity of GMOs<\/abbr> now available. In order to help choose an efficient GMO<\/abbr> detection strategy, an informed decision needs to be made on choosing the fewest number of assays to provide the greatest likelihood of successfully identifying a GMO<\/abbr> event.<\/p>\n

To address this problem, a number of bioinformatics-based decision support system (DSS) tools and resources have been developed. This latest publication describes some of the current DSS tools and related resources available for use with PCR-based approaches for GMO<\/abbr> screening, in support of EU labelling legislation enforcement. This review will be of interest to analytical laboratories who wish to augment their GMO<\/abbr> screening approaches for EU-authorised varieties and who seek guidance in identifying the most appropriate means to achieve this goal.<\/p>\n

The paper can be accessed from the JAPA (Journal of the Association of Public Analysts) website: A brief review of current bioinformatics decision support system (DSS) tools for screening for GMOs<\/abbr> in the EU using PCR-based approaches<\/a><\/p>\n

It follows the recent publication of another GC-authored paper in this field, Recent developments in DNA-based screening approaches for detection of GMOs<\/abbr><\/a>, also by JAPA.<\/p>\n

For more information about the work the Government Chemist does on GMOs<\/abbr> contact us:<\/p>\n

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Government Chemist team authors peer-reviewed paper evaluating bioinformatic tools to be used with PCR-based approaches for GMO screening<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82028"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=82028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82028\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=82028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=82028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=82028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}