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Accelerating Breast Cancer Research Through High-Quality Biospecimens and Data
The Breast Cancer Now Biobank (BCNB) is a biobanking ecosystem designed to accelerate breast cancer research, with patient benefit at its core. By bringing together high-quality biospecimens, comprehensive clinical information and research data, BCNB enables researchers to generate new insights that improve our understanding of breast cancer and drive better outcomes for patients.
BCNB is committed to collecting longitudinal samples and maintaining rich, up-to-date clinical and research data. This provides researchers with access to well-characterised specimens and robust datasets, supporting reproducible, high-quality research and enabling discoveries to be shared across the scientific community.
To begin exploring the resources available, visit the Research Catalogue, Analytics Hub, and Cohort Browser.
Research
Catalogue
Explore our outputs and contributions of our work to breast cancer research through our Research Catalogue.
Analytics
Hub
Query and analyse research data from both BCNB Projects and data from large-scale publicly available projects.
Browse our Samples
Use our Cohort Browser to search specimens and data available from the BCNB and define a cohort of interest.
Biobank Activity
17,000+
Patients Consented
40%
Donations Used in Research
200
Projects Supported
Citations and Acknowledgements
If you use the BCNB Bioinformatics Portal in your work, please cite:
Gadaleta E, Pirrò S, Dayem Ullah AZ, Marzec J, Chelala C. BCNB Bioinformatics: the next evolutionary step in the bioinformatics of breast cancer tissue banking. Nucleic Acids Res. 2018 Jan 4;46(D1):D1055-D1061. doi: 10.1093/nar/gkx913. PMID: 29136180
If you have used BCNB specimens/data in your work, please include the following in your publication(s):
We acknowledge the role of the Breast Cancer Now Tissue Bank in collecting and making available the samples/data used in the generation of this publication.