CaTissue Suite to OpenSpecimen: Developing an extensible, open source, web-based biobanking management system.

ABSTRACT: The National Cancer Institute (NCI) Cancer Biomedical Informatics Grid® (caBIG®) program established standards and best practices for biorepository data management by creating an infrastructure to propagate biospecimen resource sharing while maintaining data integrity and security. caTissue Suite, a biospecimen data management software tool, has evolved from this effort. More recently, the caTissue Suite continues to evolve as an open source initiative known as OpenSpecimen. The essential functionality of OpenSpecimen includes the capture and representation of highly granular, hierarchically-structured data for biospecimen processing, quality assurance, tracking, and annotation. Ideal for multi-user and multi-site biorepository environments, OpenSpecimen permits role-based access to specif

SUBMITTER: McIntosh LD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4772150 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature