A standards based ontological approach to information handling for use by organizations providing human tissue for research.

ABSTRACT: Tissue resources have become an important component of the infrastructure of institutions as well as companies performing biomedical research. Such tissue resources may be in the model of a bank, collecting a limited type of tissues and processing and storing them following a specific protocol. Such banks or archives may be associated with a clinical study or may function indepedently. An alternative type of tissue resource is utilized by many institutions and cancer centers. In this model, the investigator specifies the methods by which selected tissues are to be collected, processed and stored. In such a "prospective model", initially developed at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and the Ohio State University in the late 1970's and adopted by the Cooperative Human Tissue Network i

SUBMITTER: Edgerton ME 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2623300 | biostudies-literature | 2008

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature