LabVantage Biobanking

This case study describes how the Knight Cancer Institute BioLibrary at Oregon Health and Science University (OHSU) successfully implemented LabVantage Biobanking LIMS software, giving researchers access to over 150,000 tumor samples.

With the explosive growth in the number of specimens stored in biobanks, leading biobanking institutions are striving to better organize their sample inventory and associated data. A biobanking informatics system is essential to ensure sample viability, inventory and data fidelity for the future. In this case study, learn why the Duke Biobank, based in the Duke Translational Medicine Institute of Duke Medicine, adopted LabVantage as its laboratory information management system (LIMS) in order to improve management of sample inventories in multiple biobanking entities.

Biobanks play a crucial role in biomedical research by storing and distributing a wide array of biospecimens and the clinical information linked to those samples. Many challenges are encountered when biobanking, including the tracing of samples and security of patient information. This application note details how a LabVantage purpose-built, commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) Biobanking LIMS solution can help address many of these challenges by providing built-in workflows, electronic data capture, improved data accuracy and increased process efficiency, as well as enabling compliance with regulatory requirements.

Biospecimens have traditionally been tracked and stored by laboratories in relatively ad-hoc and non-centralized methods. Revolutions in genomics and proteomics, leading to increased awareness of the links between the molecular and genetic basis of diseases and treatments, are demanding more unified and large scale software systems to track biological markers. This article presents the idea of a new class of ‘enterprise biobanking’ software systems, such as the Sapphire™ BioBanking Solution from LabVantage Solutions, which maintain centralized records linking multiple labs around the world, integrating with LIMS and CTMS systems, as well as managing the complexities surrounding the human consent forms attached to each sample.

Find out how the Knight Cancer Institute BioLibrary at Oregon Health and Science University approached the challenge to connect samples and data from multiple sites with the help of a single LIMS

Multiple enhancements in LabVantage 8.3