Biorepositories Session Spotlight: Set Best Practices in Sample Annotation to Boost the Breadth and Variety of Available Data

With potentially millions of specimens to store and keep track of, the annotation of clinical and demographic data is one of the most critically important tasks a Biorepository team and their support vendors must undertake. If you can pre-envision the needs and capabilities of your bioinformatics team, you can help improve efficiency down the road. At Biorepositories 2013, in this session, led by Genzyme, discussions some best-practices to ensure this efficiency such as engineering standardized templates to capture and represent the results of research assays and opening channels with the legal team to make sure all consent information is being archived and followed according to agreed protocols.

Biorepositories and Sample Management Conference 2013 will take place September 25-27, 2013 in Boston, MA.  For more information on this session and the rest of the program, download the agenda.  As a reader of this blog, when you register to join us and mention code XP1898BLOG, you'll save 15% off the current rate!

Featured Session: Set Best Practices in Sample Annotation to Boost the Breadth and Variety of Available Data

Featured Speaker: Jean Cavallo, Associate Director, Molecular Pathology, Genzyme, a Sanofi Company

About the session: Annotation of clinical and demographic data of your research specimens is one of the most critically important tasks your team and support vendors must undertake – and also one of the most laborious and time-intensive. By pre-envisioning the needs and capabilities of your bioinformatics team, you can help design or select the s
oftware tools best suited for your research needs while greatly improving efficiency.

• • Engineer standardized templates to capture and represent the results of research assays for which there are no current standards
• • Overlay your data onto universally-understood vocabularies to facilitate bioinformatics research
• • Open channels with your legal team to make sure all consent information is being both archived and followed according to agreed protocols

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