Dutch officials expect precise accuracy from DNA-matching software that will be used to identify many of the 298 Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 victims. But it is unknown whether there will be enough genetic evidence from the remains and relatives of the missing to ID everyone.

As of Friday, 171 people who died after the July 17 crash had not been recovered. 

Shortly after the disaster, the Netherlands Forensic Institute, a nonprofit, government-owned agency, was tasked with the DNA-matching portion of an ID effort led by international experts from the Dutch National Forensic Investigations Team.

"The NFI received DNA samples that were taken from over 600 bodies and body parts," institute spokeswoman Suzan Demirhan told Nextgov on Tuesday. "We were asked to make a DNA profile of each sample." more