Discrepancies in Variant Classifications and How to Resolve Them

Variant classification discrepancies – where clinical laboratories and clinicians/genetic counselors disagree about the clinical meaningfulness of a variant – can impede the accurate diagnosis and subsequent treatment of patients.

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Mastermind Updates: Search Companion

We have just released a major update to Search Companion, our Chrome extension for Mastermind. Key elements of this enhancement include functionality on eight new platforms, a more intuitive interface with deeper data, plus access is now available to all Chrome users, including those without a Mastermind account.

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New Diagnostic Tool in Mastermind: Disease-Specific Curated Content

Disease-Specific Curated Content, now available to everyone in the Mastermind Genomic Search Engine, presents comprehensive and expertly curated variant data to provide clinical diagnostic labs with certainty, consistency, and confidence. This blog will guide you through the key benefits of this new offering, including an informative video tutorial.

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Mastermind Update: Improved Article Icon Attributes

We often blog about the significant strides we’ve made to organize and make sense of genomic knowledge contained within the primary evidence of the medical literature. And there is certainly a lot to talk about. But we thought it’d be interesting to give insight into how much attention and effort goes into even the smallest …

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Mastermind Connection: Nostos Genomics AION Platform

Nostos Genomics’ AION is now integrated with the Mastermind Genomic Search Engine. This blog will show how AION users can quickly view Mastermind publication search results within the platform in just a few steps.

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Mastermind Connection: DNASTAR Lasergene Software

DNASTAR’s Variant Annotation Database (VAD), included in Lasergene Genomics, is now integrated with the Mastermind Genomic Search Engine. With this integration, Lasergene users can now quickly and easily search and cross-reference NGS variant data from millions of PubMed publications.

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