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CODIS—The
Future
Through the combination of increased federal
funding and expanded database laws, such as the DNA Fingerprint Act
of 2005, the number of profiles in NDIS has and
will continue to dramatically increase resulting in a need to re-architect the
CODIS software. A considerable focus during this time will be to enhance kinship
analysis software for use in the identification of missing persons. This next
generation of CODIS will utilize STR and mtDNA information as well as meta data
(such as sex, date of last sighting, age, etc.) to help in the identification
of missing persons. The re-architecture will also enable CODIS to include additional
DNA technologies such a Y Short Tandem Repeat (Y-STR) and mini-Short Tandem Repeat
(miniSTR). The FBI Laboratory is committed to the support of the CODIS program.
With the continued cooperation and collaboration of legislative bodies and all
components of the criminal justice community—law enforcement, crime laboratories,
victims, prosecutors and the judiciary—the future of DNA, CODIS, and NDIS
holds
even greater promise to solve crime and identify missing persons.
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