Welcome to the Diagnostic Assay Validation Network (DAVN) – a new community for diagnostic researchers, regulators, and professionals across government, industry, and academia to develop and share standard diagnostic method development and validation within the plant science community.
The DAVN was created to provide a working space for plant scientists to easily access statistical tools, registries of methods and controls, promote validated methods, and connect with assay developers, testers, and end-users via an online community (coming soon).
Learn more about the need and the vision for DAVN.
Within this DAVN web-portal you will find tools that assists with diagnostic assay development, validation and use. DAVN is being built to provide connections to communities of scientists in the business of diagnostics. You will find knowledge resources provided by many members of our society to promote on-going learning and development of the sciences of plant disease diagnostics.
Tools
Under Tools, you will find Databases for extraction methods, types and sources of controls, and resources to develop assays. Additionally, you will see Validation Tools that provide context and overview of tiers of validation, validation workflow, vocabulary, and a set of statistical calculators. Publication guidelines describe the APS recommended language for publishing research papers about diagnostic assay development. Published validation research articles and related workflow instructions are found under Tools. Validated techniques, methods and work instructions focuses on approaches and methodologies. It provides guidelines on publication formats, work instructions and house a list of validation diagnostic assays.
Communities (APS Members Only)
Under Communities you will find a directory of DAVN operational committees, Communities to promote interactive workspace and collaboration, registries and directories for taxon-specific expertise, assay developers, ring testing labs, and where reference collections can be found.
Knowledge Center
The Knowledge Center houses webinars, seminars, presentations and posters, and archived materials from Network development.
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Questions? Contact us at DAVN@scisoc.org
