Abstract
Scientific revolution is changing the world forever. Many new disciplines and fields have emerged with unlimited possibilities and opportunities. Biobanking is one of many that is benefiting from revolutionary milestones in human genome, post-genomic, and computer and bioinformatics discoveries. The storage, management, and analysis of massive clinical and biological data sets cannot be achieved without a global collaboration and networking. At the same time, biobanking is facing many significant challenges that need to be addressed and solved including dealing with an ever increasing complexity of sample storage and retrieval, data management and integration, and establishing common platforms in a global context. The overall picture of the biobanking of the future, however, is promising. Many population-based biobanks have been formed, and more are under development. It is certain that amazing discoveries will emerge from this large-scale method of preserving and accessing human samples. Signs of a healthy collaboration between industry, academy, and government are encouraging.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
References
Watson JD, Crick FH (1953) Molecular structure of nucleic acids; a structure for deoxyribose nucleic acid. Nature 171(4356):737–738
Venter C, Cohen D (2004) The century of biology. New Perspect Q 21(4):73–77
Marko-Varga G (2013) BioBanking as the central tool for translational medicine CTM issue 2013. Clin Transl Med 2(1):4
Otlowski MFA, Nicol D, Stranger MJA (2010) Biobanks information paper. J Law Inf Sci 20:97–227
Hewitt R, Watson P (2013) Defining biobank. Biopreserv Biobank 11(5):309–315
Kelley K, Stone C, Manning A, Swede H (2007) Population-based biobanks and genetics research in Connecticut. The Virtual Office of Genomics. Feb 2007. www.ct.gov/dph/LIB/dph/Genomics/biobankspolicybrief.pdf
MacKenzie-Dodds J, Clarke A, Lermen D, Rey I, Astrin JJ, Seberg O, Oste CC (2012) Recent initiatives in biodiversity biobanking: summary of presentations from the ESBB 2012 conference. Biopreserv Biobank 11(3):182–188
National Research Council. A new biology for the 21st century (2009) The National Academies Press, Washington, DC
Swede H, Stone CL, Norwood AR (2007) National population-based biobanks for genetic research. Genet Med 9(3):141–149
UK Biobank opens for research. http://www.ukbiobank.ac.uk/2012/06/uk-biobank-opens-for-research. Accessed 14 Nov 2014
Biobanking and Biomolecular Resources Research Infrastructure website (BBMRI-ERIC). http://www.bbmri-eric.eu/web/guest/mission. Accessed Jan 2015
Yuille M, van Ommen GJ, Brechot C, Cambon-Thomsen A, Dagher G, Landegren U, Litton JE et al (2008) Biobanking for Europe. Brief Bioinform 9(1):14–24
Lander ES, Linton LM, Birren B, Nusbaum C, Zody MC, Baldwin J, Devon K et al (2001) Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome. Nature 409(6822):860–921
A Brief Guide to Genomics. National Human Genome Research Institute. http://www.genome.gov/18016863. Accessed 6 Jan 2015
Collins FS, Morgan M, Patrinos A (2003) The human genome project: lessons from large-scale biology. Science 300(5617):286–290
Timp W, Mirsaidov UM, Wang D, Comer J, Aksimentiev A, Timp G (2010) Nanopore sequencing: electrical measurements of the code of life. IEEE Trans Nanotechnol 9(3):281–294
Izzo M, Mortola F, Arnulfo G, Fato MM, Varesio L (2014) A digital repository with an extensible data model for biobanking and genomic analysis management. BMC Genomics 15(Suppl 3):S3
Abend A, Housman D, Johnson B (2009) Integrating clinical data into the i2b2 repository. Summit Translat Bioinforma 1:1–5
Segagni D, Tibollo V, Dagliati A, Zambelli A, Priori SG, Bellazzi R (2012) An ICT infrastructure to integrate clinical and molecular data in oncology research. BMC Bioinform 13(Suppl 4):S5
McCusker JP, Phillips JA, Gonzalez BA, Finkelstein A, Krauthammer M (2009) Semantic web data warehousing for caGrid. BMC Bioinform 10(Suppl 10):S2
Krestyaninova M, Zarins A, Viksna J, Kurbatova N, Rucevskis P, Neogi SG et al (2009) A system for information management in BioMedical studies–SIMBioMS. Bioinformatics 25(20):2768–2769
Stanford Translational Research Integrated Database Environment (STRIDE). http://med.stanford.edu/scci/research/stride.html. Accessed 13 Jan 2015
Abugessaisa I, Gomez-Cabrero D, Snir O, Lindblad S, Klareskog L, Malmström V, Tegnér J (2013) Implementation of the CDC translational informatics platform – from genetic variants to the national Swedish Rheumatology Quality Register. J Transl Med 11:85
Lowe HJ, Ferris TA, Hernandez PM, Weber SC (2009) STRIDE – an integrated standards-based translational research informatics platform. AMIA Annu Symp Proc 2009:391–395
Zhang Z, Bajic VB, Yu J, Cheung K-H, Townsend JP (2011) Data integration in bioinformatics: current efforts and challenges. In: Mahdavi MA (ed) Bioinformatics – trends and methodologies. InTech – Open Access Publisher, Rijeka
Diaz Z, Aguilar-Mahecha A, Paquet ER, Basik M, Orain M, Camlioglu E, Constantin A et al (2013) Next-generation biobanking of metastases to enable multidimensional molecular profiling in personalized medicine. Mod Pathol 26(11):1413–1424
Bush WS, Moore JH (2012) Chapter 11. Genome-wide association studies. PLoS Comput Biol 8(12)
Dane AD, Hendriks MM, Reijmers TH, Harms AC, Troost J, Vreeken RJ, Boomsma DI et al (2014) Integrating metabolomics profiling measurements across multiple biobanks. Anal Chem 86(9):4110–4114
Eiseman E, Haga S (2000) A handbook of human tissue sources: a national resource of human tissue samples. RAND Corporation, Santa Monica
Malm J, Fehniger TE, Danmyr P, Végvári A, Welinder C, Lindberg H, Appelqvist R et al (2013) Developments in biobanking workflow standardization providing sample integrity and stability. J Proteomics 95:38–45
Moore HM, Kelly AB, Jewell SD, McShane LM, Clark DP, Greenspan R, Hayes DF et al (2011) Biospecimen reporting for improved study quality (BRISQ). Cancer Cytopathol 119(2):92–101
Moore HM, Compton CC, Alper J, Vaught JB (2011) International approaches to advancing biospecimen science. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 20(5):729–732
Kevles DJ, Hood L (eds) (1992) The code of codes- scientific and social issues in the human genome project. Harvard University Press, London
Simeon-Dubach D, Perren A (2011) Better provenance for biobank samples. Nature 475(7357):454–455
Hubel A, Aksan A, Skubitz APN, Wendt C, Zhong X (2011) State of the art in preservation of fluid biospecimens. Biopreserv Biobank 9(3):237–244
Frey M (2010) Automation improves biobanking efficiency. Genetic Engineering News 30(21)
Betsou F, Rimm DL, Watson PH, Womack C, Hubel A, Coleman RA, Horn L et al (2010) What are the biggest challenges and opportunities for biorepositories in the next three to five years? Biopreserv Biobank 8(2):81–88
Karimi-Busheri F, Zadorozhny V, Carrier E, Fakhrai H (2013) Molecular integrity and global gene expression of breast and lung cancer stem cells under long-term storage and recovery. Cell Tissue Bank 14(2):175–186
Karimi-Busheri F, Zadorozhny V, Shawler DL, Fakhrai H (2010) The stability of breast cancer progenitor cells during cryopreservation: Maintenance of proliferation, self-renewal, and senescence characteristics. Cryobiology 60(3):308–314
Massett HA, Atkinson NL, Weber D, Myles R, Ryan C, Grady M, Compton C (2011) Assessing the need for a standardized cancer HUman Biobank (caHUB): findings from a national survey with cancer researchers. J Natl Cancer Inst Monogr 2011(42):8–15
Shankar SK, Mahadevan A (2012) Biobanking for cancer research: preservation of tissue integrity – some technical considerations. Ind J Neurosurg 1(2):130–138
Bancroft JD, Gamble M (2008) Theory and practice of histological techniques. Churchill Livingstone/Elsevier, Philadelphia
Baker M (2012) Biorepositories: building better biobanks. Nature 486(7401):141–146
Fisher D (2013) The future of biobanking. Biotechnol Focus 8:2013
Moore HM, Kelly A, McShane LM, Vaught J (2013) Biospecimen reporting for improved study quality (BRISQ). Transfusion 53(7), e1
Barnes R, Albert M, Damaraju S, de Sousa-Hitzler J, Kodeeswaran S, Mes-Masson AM, Watson P et al (2013) Generating a comprehensive set of standard operating procedures for a biorepository network-The CTRNet experience. Biopreserv Biobank 11(6):387–396
Rifai N, Annesley TM, Berg JP, Brugnara C, Delvin E, Lamb EJ, Ness PM et al (2012) An appeal to medical journal editors: the need for a full description of laboratory methods and specimen handling in clinical study reports. Transfusion 52(6):e17–e19
Community Research and Development Information Service (CORDIS). http://cordis.europa.eu/home_en.html. Accessed 11 Nov 2014
Ruan L, Song Y, Fan J, Ying H, Gan R (2014) The Shanghai biobanking DNA quality control program. Biopreserv Biobank 12(4):259–264
Momynaliev K, Imanbekova M (2013) The need for standardized biobanks in Kazakhstan. Central Asian J Global Health 2 Suppl
Lee JE, Kim JH, Hong EJ, Yoo HS, Nam HY, Park O (2012) National biobank of Korea: quality control programs of collected-human biospecimens. Osong Public Health Res Perspect 3(3):185–189
Navis GJ, Blankestijn PJ, Deegens J, De Fijter JW, Homan van der Heide JJ, Rabelink T, Krediet RT et al (2014) The biobank of nephrological diseases in the Netherlands cohort: the string of pearls initiative collaboration on chronic kidney disease in the university medical centers in the Netherlands. Nephrol Dial Transplant 29(6):1145–1150
Stengel B, Combe C, Jacquelinet C, Briançon S, Fouque D, Laville M, Frimat L et al (2014) The french chronic kidney disease-renal epidemiology and information network (CKD-REIN) cohort study. Nephrol Dial Transplant 29(6):1500–1507
Teunissen CE, Tumani H, Engelborghs S, Mollenhauer B (2014) Biobanking of CSF: international standardization to optimize biomarker development. Clin Biochem 47(4–5):288–292
Vitonis AF, Vincent K, Rahmioglu N, Fassbender A, Buck Louis GM, Hummelshoj L, Giudice LC et al (2014) World Endometriosis Research Foundation Endometriosis Phenome and biobanking harmonization project: II. Clinical and covariate phenotype data collection in endometriosis research. Fertil Steril 102(5):1223–1232
Casper RF (2014) Introduction: new tools for enhancing collaborative endometriosis research. Fertil Steril 102(5):1211–1212
Wei BR, Simpson RM (2014) Digital pathology and image analysis augment biospecimen annotation and biobank quality assurance harmonization. Clin Biochem 47(4–5):274–279
Park A. TIME, Mar 2009. http://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1884779_1884782_1884766,00.html
The future of biobanks: regulation, ethics, investment and the humanization of drug discovery. Business insights. 2009. (Cited Mar 2009). http://www.globalbusinessinsights.com/content/rbdd0026m.pdf
Vaught J, Rogers J, Myers K, Lim MD, Lockhart N, Moore H, Sawyer S et al (2011) An NCI perspective on creating sustainable biospecimen resources. J Natl Cancer Inst Monogr 42:1–7
Acknowledgement
I am sincerely grateful to Drs. Michael Weinfeld and David Murray for their valuable comments on the article.
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Corresponding author
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2015 Springer International Publishing Switzerland
About this chapter
Cite this chapter
Karimi-Busheri, F., Rasouli-Nia, A. (2015). Integration, Networking, and Global Biobanking in the Age of New Biology. In: Karimi-Busheri, F. (eds) Biobanking in the 21st Century. Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, vol 864. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-20579-3_1
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-20579-3_1
Publisher Name: Springer, Cham
Print ISBN: 978-3-319-20578-6
Online ISBN: 978-3-319-20579-3
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life SciencesBiomedical and Life Sciences (R0)