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A framework for the use of genomics data at the EPA

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The US Environmental Protection Agency is developing a new guidance that outlines best practice in the submission, quality assurance, analysis and management of genomics data for environmental applications.

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Figure 1: Genomics, proteomics and metabonomics/metabolomics can provide useful weight-of-evidence data along the source-to-outcome continuum when appropriate bioinformatic and computational methods are applied toward integrating molecular, chemical and toxicological information.

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This perspective is based on the efforts of the dedicated EPA staff within the Office of the Science Advisor, the Science Policy Council, the Agency-wide Genomics Task Force and the subsequent Genomics Technical Framework Workgroups.

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  1. Office of Research and Development, US Environmental Protection Agency, National Center for Computational Toxicology (D343-03), Research Triangle Park, 27711, North Carolina, USA

    David J Dix

  2. US Department of Agriculture, Food Safety and Inspection Service,

    Kathryn Gallagher, Kerry L Dearfield & William H Farland

  3. Office of the Science Advisor (8105R), US Environmental Protection Agency, Ariel Rios Building, 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, DC 20460, Washington, USA

    Kathryn Gallagher, Kerry L Dearfield & William H Farland

  4. Gulf Ecology Division, Office of Research and Development, US Environmental Protection Agency, National Health and Environmental Effects Research Laboratory, Sabine Island Drive, Gulf Breeze, 32561, Florida, USA

    William H Benson

  5. US Environmental Protection Agency, Region 7, 901 North 5th Street, Kansas City, 66101, Kansas, USA

    Brenda L Groskinsky

  6. Office of Prevention Pesticides Toxic Substances, US Environmental Protection Agency, MC 7101M, 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, DC 20460, Washington, USA

    J Thomas McClintock

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Dix, D., Gallagher, K., Benson, W. et al. A framework for the use of genomics data at the EPA. Nat Biotechnol 24, 1108–1111 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1038/nbt0906-1108

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