National Mesothelioma Virtual Bank: a standard based biospecimen and clinical data resource to enhance translational research

• Published in: BMC cancer Vol. 8; no. 1; p. 236
• Main Authors: Amin, Waqas, Parwani, Anil V, Schmandt, Linda, Mohanty, Sambit K, Farhat, Ghada, Pople, Andrew K, Winters, Sharon B, Whelan, Nancy B, Schneider, Althea M, Milnes, John T, Valdivieso, Federico A, Feldman, Michael, Pass, Harvey I, Dhir, Rajiv, Melamed, Jonathan, Becich, Michael J
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England BioMed Central Ltd 13.08.2008; BioMed Central; BMC
• Subjects: Care and treatment; Computational Biology - methods; Databases as Topic; Diagnosis; DNA - metabolism; Humans; Identification and classification; Mesothelioma; Mesothelioma - diagnosis; Mesothelioma - pathology; National Institutes of Health (U.S.); Oligonucleotide Array Sequence Analysis; Paraffin; Pleural Neoplasms - diagnosis; Pleural Neoplasms - pathology; Prospective Studies; Retrospective Studies; Software; Tissue Banks; Tumor markers; United States; User-Computer Interface; United States

Advances in translational research have led to the need for well characterized biospecimens for research. The National Mesothelioma Virtual Bank is an initiative which collects annotated datasets relevant to human mesothelioma to develop an enterprising biospecimen resource to fulfill researchers�...