Inter-laboratory variation in interpretation of DNA mixtures
2020-R2-CX-0049
Past Project Period End Date
Funding First Awarded
2020
$1,063,335
Trace DNA
Develop non-PCR-based target enrichment reagents and methods for MPS analysis of forensic DNA
2020-R2-CX-0029
Closed
Funding First Awarded
2020
$100,000
Capillary Zone Electrophoresis Automated Fraction Collection for the Forensic Analysis of Sexual Assault Evidence
2017-IJ-CX-0003
Closed
Funding First Awarded
2019
$50,000
Development of a 2bRAD-seq Paternity Testing Pipeline for Complex and Mixed DNA Samples
2019-R2-CX-0049
Closed
Funding First Awarded
2019
$150,000
Improving Results from Touch DNA Evidence with Optimized Direct PCR Methods
2019-DU-BX-0009
Closed
Funding First Awarded
2019
$453,146
Probabilistic Genotyping for Microhaplotypes
2019-DU-BX-0023
Closed
Funding First Awarded
2019
$192,764
Quantifying the Accuracy of Two Innovative Forensic Genetic Identification Techniques: Genealogical Searching and Low-Template DNA Mixture Analysis
2019-DU-BX-0028
Past Project Period End Date
Funding First Awarded
2019
$395,773
Towards Commercialization: Preliminary developmental validation of a high resolution melt curve mixture prediction assay and SVM tool
2019-DU-BX-0003
Past Project Period End Date
Funding First Awarded
2019
$399,699
Strengthening Our Nation's Crime Laboratories
April 2018
As technology improves, demand for analysis of DNA and other forensic evidence to help solve crimes grows. This video describes some of the challenges crime laboratories face in meeting this demand and how National Institute of Justice (NIJ) funding has strengthened crime labs and encouraged innovation in forensic techniques.
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Forensic Science Research and Development Technology Working Group: Operational Requirements
Date Published
April 4, 2024
DNA Contamination, Degradation, Damage and Associated Microbiomes: A Comparative Analysis through Massive Parallel Sequencing and Capillary Electrophoresis
2018-DU-BX-0205
Closed
Funding First Awarded
2018
$477,609
Resolving the Forensic DNA Mixture Problem through the Development of End-to-End Single-Cell Pipelines
2018-DU-BX-0185
Closed
Funding First Awarded
2018
$546,727
Better Forensic Markers: Microhaplotypes and Ancestry SNPs
2018-75-CX-0041
Closed
Funding First Awarded
2018
$1,083,499
A fully continuous machine learning approach to predict the number of contributors in sequence-based DNA profiles
2018-DU-BX-0202
Closed
Funding First Awarded
2018
$431,917
Capillary Zone Electrophoresis Automated Fraction Collection for the Forensic Analysis of Sexual Assault Evidence
2017-IJ-CX-0003
Closed
Funding First Awarded
2018
$50,000
Nanoscale Imaging and Chemical Analysis of Extracellular DNA in Trace Evidence Samples
2017-DN-BX-0186
Closed
Funding First Awarded
2017
$311,609
Efficient sequencing and analysis of degraded and trace DNA samples using a novel targeted ligation-free method
2017-DN-BX-0140
Past Project Period End Date
Funding First Awarded
2017
$993,718
Non-destructive, enhanced collection and recovery from difficult forensic samples, improving the "front end" processes of DNA typing
2017-DN-BX-0137
Closed
Funding First Awarded
2017
$286,931
Development of a Mitochondrial Mixture Database and Interpretation Tool
2017-DN-BX-0134
Closed
Funding First Awarded
2017
$556,910
Developing SPLiT-Seq: A Massively Parallel Sequencing Method to Remove PCR Artifacts for Forensic STR Genotyping
2017-DN-BX-0160
Closed
Funding First Awarded
2017
$509,728
Capillary Zone Electrophoresis Automated Fraction Collection for the Forensic Analysis of Sexual Assault Evidence
2017-IJ-CX-0003
Closed
Funding First Awarded
2017
$40,780
Typing Highly Degraded DNA Using Circularized Molecules and Target Enrichment
2016-DN-BX-0154
Closed
Funding First Awarded
2016
$682,474
FY 2015 DNA Capacity Enhancement and Backlog Reduction Program/Harris County Institute of Forensic Sciences
2015-DN-BX-0008
Closed
Funding First Awarded
2015
$639,942
Combined Genetic and Micro-chemical Analysis of Household Dust as a Definitive Trace Identifier of a Room and its Occupants
2013-DN-BX-K025
Closed
Funding First Awarded
2015
$188,198
The Philadelphia Police Department, Office of Forensic Science, Criminalistics Unit Reduction of Forensic Biology and DNA Case Backlog Program
2015-DN-BX-0033
Closed
Funding First Awarded
2015
$966,068