Biobank
noun, verb
noun, verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 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)."
Verb
- 1 To store (biological material) in a biobank. transitive
Synonyms
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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.