Analyst Interview - ISHI News Highlights TrueAllele® Role in Solving 1963 Wisconsin Cold Case

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April 2015 Newsletter

Cybergenetics April 2015 News
New York Frye Hearing
New York Court Admits TrueAllele After Frye Challenge
A New York court admitted Cybergenetics TrueAllele Casework into evidence in the murder trial of People v. John Wakefield. Schenectady Supreme Court Justice Michael Coccoma found that the DNA interpretation software "is not novel but instead is 'generally accepted' under the Frye standard." New York is the sixth state to admit TrueAllele after an  admissibility challenge. 
Judge Coccoma found that "computerized probabilistic approaches and likelihood ratio principles used by Cybergenetics TrueAllele Casework are superior to current methods. Moreover, Cybergenetics TrueAllele Casework has been demonstrated to be one of, if not, the most advanced method of interpreting DNA profiles from mixed and low-template DNA. It has been proved to be more accurate than CPI and CLR, preserves more of the identification information, eliminates examiner bias, produces a match value which human review may not, and permits standardization of mixture reporting whereas human review approaches can lead to very different match statistics on the same DNA data."
NIJ Solicitations

TrueAllele Casework reduces evidence backlogs with an automated interpretation workflow process, expands production capacity to solve mixtures, interprets complex sexual assault DNA evidence (including serial and incest rape), solves cold cases, and can help identify serial perpetrators by matching evidence to evidence using an internal TrueAllele database.

Upcoming Events
125th CAC Seminar, Spring 2015
May 4-8, 2015
Ventura Beach Marriott Hotel
Ventura, CA
  • DNA Workshop: Mixture Interpretation and Probabilistic Genotyping
  • Cybergenetics booth #16
MAAFS Annual Meeting
May 18-22, 2015
Hyatt Regency Chesapeake Bay
Cambridge, MD
  • DNA Workshop: Rapid DNA Response On the Wings of TrueAllele
  • Cybergenetics booth #TBD
How TrueAllele Works  Webinars
Upcoming TrueAllele Validation Study in JFS
Perlin MW, Hornyak J, Sugimoto G, Miller K. TrueAllele genotype identification on DNA mixtures containing up to five unknown contributors. Journal of Forensic Sciences. 2015;in press.
Recent Cases
TrueAllele Validations
Seven peer-reviewed studies
TrueAllele Admissibility
Six United States outcomes
TrueAllele Solutions

  • Degraded and touch DNA
  • Mixtures with related contributors
  • Mixtures with five plus contributors
  • Kinship, missing persons and mass disaster victim identification
  • System database for searching and matching all evidence genotypes
TrueAllele Support & Services

  • Training: science, software, and expert court testimony
  • Validation: rapid validation support and tools for accreditation and court
  • Support: hands-on user support, including user group meetings
Exploring TrueAllele
Free First Look
Cybergenetics offers a free screening of your complex DNA mixtures.  For more information, please contact stephan@cybgen.com.