The National Center for Forensic Science (NCFS) is a State of Florida Type II Research Center at the University of Central Florida. Our mission is to provide relevant and responsive forensic science research, training and operational support to communities that rely on science to achieve justice. Our team of chemists, biochemists, physicists and statisticians work individually and in synergistic teams to perform basic and applied forensic science research. The Center also develops and curates databases and provides continuing education in support of the forensic communities.
New Publication
Just published from the biological evidence laboratories of Erin Hanson and Jack Ballantyne
Simultaneous identification and association of body fluids to donors can serve as a powerful tool in the criminal investigation of mixed traces. Massively parallel sequencing of the mRNA targets not only identifies the origin of the body fluids but may also provide additional contextual information about the body fluid donors of a (binary) mixture. Coding region SNPs (cSNPs) in body fluid-specific RNA transcripts facilitate the association to the respective DNA cSNP genotype of an individual. Within the European DNA Profiling Group (EDNAP), two consecutive collaborative exercises (3rd and 4th EDNAP exercise) were organized, with the objective to evaluate the performance of two previously published high-resolution mRNA sequencing assays.
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