Allocca Clare M, Bledsoe Marianna J, Albert Monique, Anisimov Sergey V, Bravo Elena, Castelhano Marta G, Cohen Yehudit, De Wilde Mieke, Furuta Koh, Kozlakidis Zisis, Martin Dunja, Martins Anabela, McCall Shannon, Morrin Helen, Pugh Rebecca S, Schacter Brent, Simeon-Dubach Daniel, Snapes Emma
Standards Coordination Office, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA.
Independent Consultant and Deputy Editor, Biopreservation and Biobanking, Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA.
Biopreserv Biobank. 2020 Dec;18(6):533-546. doi: 10.1089/bio.2020.0082. Epub 2020 Nov 6.
The era of COVID-19 has brought about a number of novel challenges for the global biobanking community. To better position the biobanking community to cope with current and future challenges, the International Society for Biological and Environmental Repositories (ISBER) COVID-19 Response Task Force was convened to identify needs and gaps in biobanking tools (existing resources that support good practice), for example, standards, best practices, business, etc. and to make recommendations to benefit the community. Toward these goals, the Task Force assembled a set of questions to explore individual biobanks' experiences, with emphasis on identification of key challenges and approaches, including tools employed. A survey was designed with the use of these questions and administered by ISBER. This article presents a summary of the aggregated data obtained from the survey responses, illustrating some of the major issues encountered and identifying which tools the survey respondents found most useful. In particular, this article focuses on the challenges identified during the early months of the COVID-19 era. Recommendations are provided to support biobank emergency preparedness for the future, address lessons learned, and propose solutions to bridge identified gaps. The analysis and the complete survey dataset will also inform the larger Task Force goal to develop specific tool recommendations.
新冠疫情时代给全球生物样本库领域带来了诸多新挑战。为使生物样本库领域能更好地应对当前及未来的挑战，国际生物与环境样本库协会（ISBER）新冠疫情应对特别工作组应运而生，旨在确定生物样本库工具（支持良好实践的现有资源），如标准、最佳实践、业务等方面的需求和差距，并提出有利于该领域的建议。为实现这些目标，特别工作组整理了一系列问题，以探究各生物样本库的经验，重点是确定关键挑战和应对方法，包括所采用的工具。利用这些问题设计了一项调查，并由ISBER进行管理。本文呈现了从调查回复中汇总得到的数据摘要，阐述了所遇到的一些主要问题，并确定了调查对象认为最有用的工具。特别是，本文聚焦于新冠疫情时代最初几个月所发现的挑战。文中提供了相关建议，以支持生物样本库未来的应急准备工作，吸取经验教训，并提出弥补已发现差距的解决方案。该分析及完整的调查数据集也将为特别工作组制定具体工具建议这一更大目标提供参考。
