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Forensics Focus Headlines Computer forensics (or forensic computing) is the use of specialized techniques for recovery, authentication, and analysis of electronic data with a view to presenting evidence in a court of law.
xrEvidence xrEvidence allows Police Departments to keep track of evidence. Each evidence item is associated with its case. You may keep detailed information about evidence items, including property category and type, manufacturer and model, year made, color, serial number, UPC, currency type and amount, narcotic type, special warnings, etc. Items and cases can be combined in batches. Action may be preformed on item, case, and batch levels. You may take digital images of items. Print and scan barcodes for items, cases, batches, locations, and employees with xrEvidence. Collect barcodes remotely and upload them to the system. Customize actions that can be performed on items, cases and batches. Print Item History and Chain of Custody reports. System administrator can set extensive range of permissions for the users. All screens in xrEvidence are interrelated - view associated records with the click of a button. xrEvidence is highly customizable - you can add/edit/delete any record in dropdown fields.
Basic Overview of Forensic DNA and STR Data Approximately 99% of all human DNA is the same. In the one percent that differs, sequences of repeating nucleotides exist called Short Tandem Repeats (STRs). STR regions are highly polymorphic, meaning that they are very different between any number of people. The FBI has marked 13 locations (or loci) on the DNA for forensic testing and identification.
FBI Case Management System. Another case of failed IT projects? The FBI recently announced the cancellation of a major IT project where nearly $170 Million dollars and 3 years were spent to end up with a system that only does 10% of what was envisioned.
Forensics Institute Improves Performance with LIMS StarLIMS plays key role in integrating diverse laboratory operations into single system
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