Case Studies of Existing Human Tissue Repositories - Best Practices for a Biospecimen Resource for the Genomic and Proteomic Era (Paperback, illustrated edition)

Insights and information from a study of twelve human tissue repositories; Case studies of twelve existing human biospecimen repositories performed to evaluate their utility for genomics- and proteomics-based cancer research and to identify 3best practices2 in collection, processing, annotation, storage, privacy, ethical concerns, informed consent, business plans, operations, intellectual property rights, public relations, marketing, and education that would be useful in designing a national biospecimen network.