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By BIO-IT World
Tissue Repositories Last year, Rand Corp. analyzed tissue banking at a variety of academic, governmental, and corporate facilities. Its goal: to identify best practices, especially for IT, as applied to the management of tumors and other tissues stored for research.
| Approx. number of human specimens | Minable, searchable at secure online site | Forces use of standardized terms | Access to quality control data | Encrypted data identifying donor | Overseen by Ethics Advisory Board | Requires SOPs for tissue collection | | Ardais Corp. www.ardais.com
| 220,000 | X | | X | X | X | X | Armed Forces Institute of Pathology National Pathology Repository www.afip.org/Departments/repository/npr.html
| 92 million | | | | X | | | | Genomics Collaborative www.genomicsinc.com
| 500,000 | Partial | X | X | | X | X | Mayo Clinic Prostate Specialized Program of Research Excellence (SPORE)
| 3,000 | | | X | X | | X | National Cancer Institute's Cooperative Human Tissue Network, www-chtn.ims.nci.nih.gov
| 107,000 | Partial | X | Partial | X | X | X | University of Pittsburgh Health Sciences Tissue Bank
| 1,100 | X | X | X | X | X | X |
Most data extracted from Rand Corp.'s "Case Studies of Existing Human Tissue Repositories," published in 2003, available at www.rand.org. Numbers of specimens reported by Bio·IT World. Back to Blood, Sweat, and Tissue
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“Storage for Science – Methods for Managing Large and Rapidly Growing Data Stores in Life Science Research Environments” sponsored by Isilon
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This paper discusses the MetaMiner™ (CF) data analysis platform for a broad range of CF researchers designed to: 1. Easily assemble important biological and chemical experimental data available today in cystic fibrosis research. 2. Visualize key mechanisms leading to the disease through pathway maps and network models 3. Provide the CF community a “one stop shop” tool for uploading and analyzing experimental data in a disease-centered interface. Download now
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Storage for Science
Methods for Managing Large and Rapidly Growing Data Stores in Life Science Research Environments
Sponsored by Isilon
Large and rapidly growing stores of file-based and other data are a hallmark of life science research and bioinformatics environments. Determining how best to manage those data stores has become a significant challenge for the Researchers and IT Professionals that support them.
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