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Briefings in Bioinformatics Advance Access published online on October 23, 2007
Briefings in Bioinformatics, doi:10.1093/bib/bbm050
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© The Author 2007. Published by Oxford University Press. For Permissions, please email: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org

Biobanking for Europe

Martin Yuille, Gert-Jan van Ommen, Christian Bréchot, Anne Cambon-Thomsen, Georges Dagher, Ulf Landegren, Jan-Eric Litton, Markus Pasterk, Leena Peltonen, Mike Taussig, H-Erich Wichmann and Kurt Zatloukal

Corresponding author. Martin Yuille, The University of Manchester, School of Translational Medicine, CIGMR Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PT, UK. Tel: +44 (0)161 275 5622; Fax: +44 (0)161 275 1617; E-mail: Martin.Yuille{at}manchester.ac.uk

Biobanks are well-organized resources comprising biological samples and associated information that are accessible to scientific investigation. Across Europe, millions of samples with related data are held in different types of collections. While individual collections can be well organized and accessible, the resources are subject to fragmentation, insecurity of funding and incompleteness. To address these issues, a Biobanking and BioMolecular Resources Infrastructure (BBMRI) is to be developed across Europe, thereby implementing a European ‘roadmap’ for research infrastructures that was developed by a forum of EU member states and that has been received by the European Commission. In this review, we describe the work involved in preparing for the construction of BBMRI in a European and global context.

Keywords: epidemiology, pathology, genetics, biobanks, databases, ethics, funding

Submitted: April 24, 2007. Accepted: September 23, 2007.


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