The CAP Laboratory Accreditation Program is a peer-based inspection regime holding laboratories to checklists that meet or exceed CLIA requirements, with CMS deeming authority. Its molecular pathology and next-generation sequencing checklists set expectations for bioinformatics pipeline validation, variant calling accuracy and version control of the analytic software — the point where laboratory accreditation reaches directly into a genomics API's implementation.
CAP Accreditation
Statute United States
Referenced in API Evangelist papers
This regulation shows up in my published research. These reports read the machine-readable evidence provider by provider — and put this regulation in the context of a real sector.
The State of Biotechnology APIs
Named by 7 of 999 companies — the accreditation whose sequencing checklists govern bioinformatics pipeline versioning, an area where the market's own APIs report almost nothing.
Implemented by these standards
A regulation is the law; a standard is the machine-readable contract that makes it real. These are the technical standards that implement this regulation, catalogued at standards.apievangelist.com.
GA4GH
CAP NGS checklists govern the pipelines whose outputs GA4GH specifications move.
