Biobanking as a Newsletter- December’19
What do you plan to do for the holidays? Meet family, vacation, foreign trip, or my favorite- “do nothing”? Do let us know or better send us some pictures. Before …
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One Bright Idea!
I read an article recently about why once in a while “doing nothing” is important and that is why Christmas is my favorite time. Better than Diwali or any of the …
Managing Longitudinal Collections In OpenSpecimen
Managing biospecimen data for longitudinal studies or clinical trials can be challenging. Clinical studies often go on for months or years, and involves complex workflows like kit preparations, tracking upcoming …
The BBMRI-NL Series on Sustainable Biobanking
The long-term sustainability of biobanks has been a major concern. “Sustainability is [a biobank’s] capacity to remain operative, effective, and competitive over its expected lifetime.” OECD Global Science Forum 2017 …
National Eye Institute adopts OpenSpecimen
National Eye Institute (NIH, USA) adopts OpenSpecimen and we look forward to working with them in the coming days. Surely they have a good “eye” in selecting the right biobank …
Manage supply items inventory
Tracking the inventory of supplies in a biobank can be a tedious and time-consuming task. For example, tubes, vials, kits, gloves, labels, reagents, etc. Any mistake in inventory management can …
Track Biobank Projects Using “Project Tracker” Module
Biobanks help researchers to achieve reproducibility by providing high-quality standardized biospecimens. Accredited and certified biobanks follow best practice guidelines for specimen handling. Biobanks provide many services to researchers like specimen …
Newsletter – April 2019
Hope you are enjoying the weather in your part of the world. Unfortunately, it’s gotten very hot in Pune and will only get worse in the next few days! However, …
OpenSpecimen Workshops in Australia (Oct 2018)
We are conducting three one-day workshops across Australia on “OpenSpecimen – A Comprehensive Biobanking Informatics Platform” (www.openspecimen.org). Please email [email protected] if you are interested in attending any of them. The details are …
OpenSpecimen Workshops in Australia (Oct/18)
Three workshops coming up in Australia in the next few weeks. Please email [email protected] if you are interested in attending any of them. Melbourne – Oct 17th: OpenSpecimen Community Meet …