Examples
Worked examples
- Is an instance
A university's biorepository holding patient-derived xenograft mouse models and matched tumour specimens.
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An agricultural biorepository holding seed lines from crop-genetics research programmes.
Counter-examples
Looks similar, but isn't
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A clinical-care pathology lab is not a research biorepository.
- Not an instance
An archive of published research papers is not a biorepository.
Editorial commentary
The terms biobank, biorepository, and sample repository are used interchangeably in many communities; in others, ‘biorepository’ carries a broader connotation including animal models, plant material, microbial cultures, and environmental samples, while ‘biobank’ is reserved for human-focused collections. ISBER (International Society for Biological and Environmental Repositories) maintains the most widely used best-practice document. Biorepositories typically issue accession numbers and, increasingly, IGSN-style PIDs for samples.
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Machine-readable encodings
Use in your systems
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