title: Advancing Benchmarks for Genome Sequencing.
abstract: Several recent benchmarking efforts provide reference datasets and samples to improve genome sequencing and calling of germline and somatic mutations.
authors.affiliation: Genome-scale Measurements Group, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD 20899, USA. Electronic address: jzook@nist.gov.
authors.forename: Justin M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Zook
authors.affiliation: Genome-scale Measurements Group, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Stanford, CA 94305, USA; Department of Bioengineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA. Electronic address: salit@nist.gov.
authors.forename: Marc
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Salit