Evolutionary concepts in biobanking - the BC BioLibrary
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Evolutionary concepts in biobanking - the BC BioLibrary Peter H Watson*1,2,3, Janet E Wilson-McManus2,4, Rebecca O Barnes1,2, Sara C Giesz2, Adrian Png2, Richard G Hegele2,5, Jacquelyn N Brinkman2,6, Ian R Mackenzie2,3,7, David G Huntsman2,3,7,8, Anne Junker2,9,10, Blake Gilks2,3,7, Erik Skarsgard2,10,11, Michael Burgess2,12, Samuel Aparicio2,3,13 and Bruce M McManus2,3,4,6 Address: 1Tumour Tissue Repository, Deeley Research Centre, BC Cancer Agency, 2410 Lee Ave, Victoria, BC, Canada, 2BC BioLibrary, Vancouver, BC, Canada, 3Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, UBC, Vancouver, BC, Canada, 4Prevention of Organ Failure Centre of Excellence, Vancouver, BC, Canada, 5Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, Toronto, ON, Canada, 6The James Hogg iCAPTURE Centre for Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Research, Vancouver, BC, Canada, 7Department of Pathology, Vancouver General Hospital, Vancouver, BC, Canada Canada, 8Centre for Translational and Applied Genomics, Vancouver, BC, Canada, 9Clinical Research, Child & Family Research Institute, Vancouver, BC, Canada, 10Children's and Women's Health Centre of BC, Vancouver, BC, Canada, 11Department of Pediatric Surgery, UBC, Vancouver, BC, Canada, 12College for Interdisciplinary Studies, UBC, Vancouver, BC, Canada and 13Department of Genetic Pathology, BC Cancer Agency, Vancouver, BC, Canada Email: Peter H Watson* - [email protected]; Janet E Wilson-McManus - [email protected]; Rebecca O Barnes - [email protected]; Sara C Giesz - [email protected]; Adrian Png - [email protected]; Richard G Hegele - [email protected]; Jacquelyn N Brinkman - [email protected]; Ian R Mackenzie - [email protected]; David G Huntsman - [email protected]; Anne Junker - [email protected]; Blake Gilks - [email protected]; Erik Skarsgard - [email protected]; Michael Burgess - [email protected]; Samuel Aparicio - [email protected]; Bruce M McManus - [email protected] * Corresponding author
Published: 12 November 2009 Journal of Translational Medicine 2009, 7:95
doi:10.1186/1479-5876-7-95
Received: 9 April 2009 Accepted: 12 November 2009
This article is available from: http://www.translational-medicine.com/content/7/1/95 © 2009 Watson et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Abstract Background: Medical research to improve health care faces a major problem in the relatively limited availability of adequately annotated and collected biospecimens. This limitation is creating a growing gap between the pace of scientific advances and successful exploitation of this knowledge. Biobanks are an important conduit for transfer of biospecimens (tissues, blood, body fluids) and related health data to research. They have evolved outside of the histo
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