Quality metrics are crucial in project management, where these metrics are defined as the description of the attributes of the product or project. Every quality metric is an objective number that can be quantified and confirmed. In Geneticist Assistant, you have the option of specifying quality metrics for monitoring and reporting on the NGS data that are you adding to your historical NGS database. In Geneticist Assistant, these quality metrics are grouped in to metric profiles. Geneticist Assistant comes pre-populated with three AMP/CAP-recommended metric profiles, with each profile containing the performance metrics that CAP and AMP recommend for monitoring and reporting on NGS bioinformatics pipelines. The majority of these pre-loaded metrics are metrics that are defined in a VCF file.

You can use an AMP/CAP profile as-is, you can add a completely new metric profile (a user-defined profile), you can edit and save an existing user-defined profile as a new profile, or you can import a profile that has been saved in .json format. You can also delete a user-defined metric profile. When you add a new run to the Geneticist Assistant database, you can select the appropriate metric profile for the run, and after the run is complete, the results of this metric monitoring are reported on the Quality Metric Report sub-tab for the Sample tab. (See Quality Metric Report Sub-Tab.)