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Record Nr.

UNINA9910464591903321

Titolo

Technologies to enable autonomous detection for BioWatch : ensuring timely and accurate information for public health officials : workshop summary / / India Hook-Barnard, Sheena M. Posey Norris, and Joe Alper, Rapporteurs ; Board on Health Sciences Policy, Board on Life Sciences, Institute of Medicine and National Research Council of the National Academies

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, District of Columbia : , : The National Academies Press, , [2014]

©2014

ISBN

0-309-29252-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (260 p.)

Disciplina

363.3253

Soggetti

Bioterrorism - United States - Prevention

Environmental monitoring - United States - Cost effectiveness

Nucleic acids - Analysis

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

""Front Matter""; ""Reviewers""; ""Contents""; ""Acronyms and Abbreviations""; ""1 Introduction""; ""2 Overview of the BioWatch Program""; ""3 Public Health's Perspective on the Role of BioWatch in the Decision-Making Process""; ""4 Potential Technologies for the BioWatch Program""; ""5 Final Thoughts""; ""Appendix A: References""; ""Appendix B: Biographical Sketches of Workshop Participants""; ""Appendix C: Workshop Agenda""; ""Appendix D: Registered Attendees""; ""Appendix E: Technology Readiness Levels in the Department of Defense""

""Appendix F: White Paper 1: The BioWatch Program: What Information Is Needed to Inform Decision Making?""""Appendix G: White Paper 2: Nucleic-Acid Signatures at Three Levels of Readiness for BioWatch""; ""Appendix H: White Paper 3: State of the Art for Autonomous Detection Systems Using Immunoassays and Protein Signatures""; ""Appendix I: White Paper 4: State of the Art for Autonomous Detection Systems Using Genomic Sequencing""; ""Appendix J: White Paper 5: State of the



Art for Autonomous Detection Systems Using Mass Spectrometry""