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Tissue Banking Overview: Washington University Medical Center

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8/21/2012<br />

Advantages of<br />

online system<br />

• Accessibility to research community – as a link on<br />

departmental website<br />

• Automatic capture of required information<br />

• Reliable documentation (what was requested, and who)<br />

• Tracking of stage within laboratory<br />

• Easier compliation of metrics related to requests<br />

• Possibility of additional levels of monitoring/ review if<br />

needed<br />

• Status communications to requestors – through the “back<br />

end” updating the “front end”<br />

ca<strong>Tissue</strong> Suite v1.2<br />

• Web-based application for biospecimen information management<br />

• Professional approach to software design<br />

• Open source / Open access (Free)<br />

• Iterative development cycle (Always improving)<br />

• Flexible to meet the needs of varying biobank environments<br />

• Multiple sources of electronic and human support<br />

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