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- Title
Biobanks look to software solutions to handle data deluge.
- Authors
Petherick, Anna
- Abstract
The article discusses the introduction of informatics technologies into biobanks, warehouses of human biological samples. The web-based application helps to integrate demographic and geographical data relating to specimen donors. It allows researchers to get engaged in multicenter participation to analyze the same information wherever they are. The software products encourage facilities by standardizing the data, recorded and shared.
- Subjects
INFORMATION technology; BIOBANKS; BIOLOGICAL specimens; WEB-based user interfaces; DEMOGRAPHIC databases; GEODATABASES; COMPUTER software
- Publication
Nature Medicine, 2012, Vol 18, Issue 7, p992
- ISSN
1078-8956
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1038/nm0712-992a