Biobank
noun, verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 Any of several types of repository of biological material (e.g. seeds) or information (e.g. DNA).
"2016, Alysson Bessani et al, "BiobankCloud: A Platform for the Secure Storage, Sharing, and Processing of Large Biomedical Data Sets" (abstract), Biomedical Data Management and Graph Online Querying. Biobanks store and catalog human biological material that is increasingly being digitized using next-generation sequencing (NGS)."
- 1 To store (biological material) in a biobank. transitive
Example
More examples"2016, Alysson Bessani et al, "BiobankCloud: A Platform for the Secure Storage, Sharing, and Processing of Large Biomedical Data Sets" (abstract), Biomedical Data Management and Graph Online Querying. Biobanks store and catalog human biological material that is increasingly being digitized using next-generation sequencing (NGS)."
Etymology
From bio- + bank.
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