Table 2 Classes of metrology-based solutions to support a measurement infrastructure

Materials

Physical materials used to evaluate or validate components such as new or existing laboratory methods, training protocols, and capabilities. These materials can include reference materials for calibration or method validation and quality control materials for routine assessment of run to run performance.

Data

Data used to evaluate and validate bioinformatics pipelines and algorithms.

Guidance documents

Community accepted guidance documents such as standard operating procedures, standard guidance, or standard methods. These documents could be formal voluntary consensus standards or community accepted best practices.

Interlaboratory studies

Results from interlaboratory studies, where a common sample or protocol is distributed to participants for analysis, are used to validate the measurement process and participant’s ability to perform the measurement.