biobank

noun 1verb 1

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noun

1

Any of several types of repository of biological material (e.g. seeds) or information (e.g. DNA).

2016, Alysson Bessani et al, "BiobankCloud: A Platform for the Secure Storage, Sharing, and Processing of Large Biomedical Data Sets" (abstract), Biomedical Data Management and Graph Online Querying. Biobanks store and catalog human biological material that is increasingly being digitized using next-generation sequencing (NGS).

verb

1

To store (biological material) in a biobank.

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