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Creating a new biobanking ecosystem of interlinking niches to drive breast cancer research for patient benefit
The Breast Cancer Now Biobank (BCNB)
has created a biobanking ecosystem with patient benefit at its core. The components of this system are linked programmatically to ensure seamless bidirectional flow of specimen, clinical
and molecular information.
The BCNB recognises the importance of longitudinal specimen collection, dynamic clinical updates and data sharing.
Providing researchers with high quality, well-annotated, specimens and the resources required to conduct molecular analyses will ensure that data of the highest calibre is
generated by BCNB projects and made available for future research projects.
Before applying for specimens, researchers are encouraged to explore the three domains available from the portal:
Research Projects and Publications, the Analytics Hub and our BCNB Specimens.
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Research Catalogue
Explore our outputs and contributions of our work to breast cancer research through our Research Catalogue.
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Analytics Hub
Query and analyse research data from both BCNB Projects and data from large-scale publicly available projects
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Biobank Samples
Use our Cohort Browser to search specimens and data available from the BCNB and define a cohort of interest
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.