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The international MAQC Society launches to enhance reproducibility of high-throughput technologies

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Reproducibility is a fundamental hallmark of good science. The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-led Microarray and Sequencing Quality Control (MAQC/SEQC) consortia conducted three projects1,2,3 to assess the reliability and reproducibility of genomics technologies, including microarrays, genome-wide association studies, and next-generation sequencing. Here, we announce that this decade-long effort has led to the formation of a new international society, the Massive Analysis and Quality Control (MAQC) Society (http://www.maqcsociety.org), which is dedicated to quality control and analysis of massive data generated from high-throughput technologies for enhanced reproducibility.

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The first MAQC Society meeting was supported by the SAS Institute, Burroughs Wellcome Fund, and the National 863 Program of China (2015AA020104, to L.S.).

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  1. State Key Laboratory of Genetic Engineering, School of Life Sciences and Shanghai Cancer Center, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

    Leming Shi

  2. Collaborative Innovation Center for Genetics and Development, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

    Leming Shi

  3. Immuneering Corporation, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

    Rebecca Kusko

  4. SAS Institute Inc., Cary, North Carolina, USA

    Russell D Wolfinger

  5. Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

    Benjamin Haibe-Kains

  6. Departments of Medical Biophysics and Computer Science, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

    Benjamin Haibe-Kains

  7. Ontario Cancer Research Institute, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

    Benjamin Haibe-Kains

  8. Department of Experimental Pediatric Oncology, University Children's Hospital of Cologne, Medical Faculty, Cologne, Germany

    Matthias Fischer

  9. Center for Molecular Medicine Cologne (CMMC), University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

    Matthias Fischer

  10. Engineering Science Department, Oxford e-Research Centre, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK

    Susanna-Assunta Sansone

  11. Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, New York, USA

    Christopher E Mason

  12. Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Trento, Italy

    Cesare Furlanello

  13. Q2 Solutions, Morrisville, North Carolina, USA

    Wendell D Jones

  14. National Center for Toxicological Research, US Food and Drug Administration, Jefferson, Arkansas, USA

    Baitang Ning & Weida Tong

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R.K. is an employee of Immuneering Corporation. R.D.W is an employee of SAS Institute Inc., and W.D.J. is an employee of Q2 Solutions.

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Shi, L., Kusko, R., Wolfinger, R. et al. The international MAQC Society launches to enhance reproducibility of high-throughput technologies. Nat Biotechnol 35, 1127–1128 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/nbt.4029

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