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ACGT's Seafood ID Supports Appropriate Use of DNA Databases
[April 13, 2012]

ACGT's Seafood ID Supports Appropriate Use of DNA Databases

Apr 13, 2012 (Close-Up Media via COMTEX) -- Seafood ID from ACGT announced it is dedicated to the use of DNA testing to identify or prevent seafood mislabeling.

Towards that goal, ACGT said it has chosen to clarify their position on a crucial subject - the use of appropriate DNA databases to identify seafood species. At issue is the use of proprietary DNA databases versus those in the public domain, including GenBank (administered by the National Center for Biotechnology Information), the Barcode of Life Database (BOLD), and the database produced by the FDA in the course of their own research.

Seafood ID from ACGT, Inc. does not use proprietary databases that are, by definition, privately owned. The data in proprietary databases is not open to inspection or evaluation by outside experts including scientists at the FDA.

According to a release, the FDA allows the use of public databases as long as the users have the scientific experience required to make judgments about sequence information in those databases. All data analysis at Seafood ID from ACGT, Inc. is performed by Ph.D. level investigators, and the interpretation of the results is verified. In addition to using public databases to determine seafood species, ACGT, Inc. uses them every day to aid pharmaceutical, biotechnology and government scientists in the fight against diseases which include cancer, diabetes, and heart disease.


While a proprietary database is not reviewable, public databases are - and are self-correcting. Scientists publish DNA sequence data until a "consensus sequence" is obtained. The consensus sequence is the one used by Seafood ID from ACGT, Inc. Public databases contain both sequences from peer-reviewed journal publications and un-reviewed sequences from DNA analysis laboratories all over the world, and some species have hundreds or even thousands of sequences in the same database.

"If a client wants us to test a species and the only DNA sequence data is in GenBank and it all comes from the same laboratory and none of it is in a journal, that client gets a call saying that we can't do the project," according to Edward E. Diehl, Ph.D., Director of Business Development. "Our business is built on science, not the other way around, We have an almost twenty year history of serving clients who are at the pinnacle of scientific and clinical research, and we are proud to bring our expertise to bear on the global seafood mislabeling problem." ACGT delivers scientific results along with customer service and competitive pricing.

More information: www.seafoodid.com www.acgtinc.com ((Comments on this story may be sent to newsdesk@closeupmedia.com))

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