BioSCOOP - Biobank Sample Communication Protocol. New approach for the transfer of information between biobanks.

ABSTRACT: Dynamic development of biobanking industry (both business and science) resulted in an increased number of IT systems for samples and data management. The most difficult and complicated case for the biobanking community was cooperation between institutions, equipped with different IT systems, in the field of scientific research, mainly data interchange and information flow. Tools available on the market relate mainly to the biobank or collection level. Efficient and universal protocols including the detailed information about the donor and the sample are still very limited. Here, we have developed BioSCOOP, a communication protocol in the form of a well documented JSON API. The main aim of this study was to harmonize and standardize the rules of communication between biobanks on the level o

SUBMITTER: Jarczak J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6791335 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature