The objective of the MAQC Society is to communicate, promote, and advance reproducible science principles and quality control for analysis of the massive data generated from the existing and emerging technologies in solving biological, health, and medical problems. Thus, the goals of the Society are to (1) advocate and facilitate the development and application of quality control practice and standard analysis protocols of bioinformatics and biostatistics for enhanced reproducibility across multiple experiments, laboratories, and data analysis methods, and (2) advance our understanding and best practices in the analysis of massive data from emerging technologies applied in drug development, clinical application, and safety/risk assessment.

MAQC SOCIETY AT A GLANCE

A Bit of Background

Historically, the MAQC/SEQC has been a US FDA‐led community-wide consortium effort to address issues relating to the application of constantly evolving high‐throughput genomics technologies to either assess safety and efficacy of FDA regulated products or their safe and effective use in clinical applications as in vitro diagnostic devices. The MAQC consortium completed three projects between 2005 ‐2014 (namely MAQC I, II and III/SEQC), resulting in ~30 publications, one third of which were published in Nature Biotechnology. Furthermore, two of these papers were among the most cited in Nature Biotechnology in the last 20 years. The MAQC Society is currently completing work on SEQC2 resulting in additional publications in Nature Biotechnology and other journals regarding best practices in DNA analysis. Additional information about MAQC Consortium projects is available here. The success enjoyed by consortium members led us to create a new society whose mission is to promote reproducible scientific research, especially research that involves analysis of massive data sets but which include additional areas benefiting human health: medical and pathology imaging, proteomics and other -omics, large health-related studies and databases, etc.