Allocca Clare M, Snapes Emma, Albert Monique, Bledsoe Marianna J, Castelhano Marta G, De Wilde Mieke, Furuta Koh, Kozlakidis Zisis, Martin Dunja, Martins Anabela, McCall Shannon J, Schacter Brent
Standards Coordination Office, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA.
BioConsulting, Cork, Ireland.
Biopreserv Biobank. 2020 Dec;18(6):547-560. doi: 10.1089/bio.2020.0083. Epub 2020 Nov 18.
The COVID-19 era has brought about a number of novel challenges for the global biobanking community. An array of diverse tools (e.g., standards, best practices, and plans) exists to support quality and fitness-for-purpose in biobank operations. The International Society for Biological and Environmental Repositories (ISBER) COVID-19 Response Task Force has set out to identify needs and gaps in these tools and make recommendations for the next generation of available tools, having closely examined the COVID-19-related challenges. While conducting this work to examine the relationships between tools and biobank adaptability, a subgroup of the task force conducted a parallel effort to develop and describe individual COVID-19 era case studies based on a number of operating biobanks. Each case study presents a different combination of implemented tools. Observations and lessons learned from these case studies are provided, and experiences with tool implementation are discussed. This information is supplemented by data relating to tool usefulness that was obtained through an ISBER survey discussed in a companion article. The knowledge gained from this study will be combined with other task force efforts to make recommendations to better position the biobanking community in their response to future emergencies.
新冠疫情时代给全球生物样本库界带来了诸多新挑战。现有一系列不同的工具（如标准、最佳实践和计划）来支持生物样本库运作中的质量和适用性。国际生物与环境样本库协会（ISBER）新冠疫情应对特别工作组已着手确定这些工具中的需求和差距，并针对下一代可用工具提出建议，该工作组已仔细研究了与新冠疫情相关的挑战。在开展这项研究以考察工具与生物样本库适应性之间的关系时，特别工作组的一个子组同时开展了另一项工作，即基于多个运营中的生物样本库来开发和描述新冠疫情时代的个案研究。每个案例研究展示了所实施工具的不同组合。文中提供了从这些案例研究中得出的观察结果和经验教训，并讨论了工具实施的经验。通过一篇配套文章中所讨论的ISBER调查获得的与工具实用性相关的数据，对这些信息起到了补充作用。从本研究中获得的知识将与特别工作组的其他工作相结合，以便提出建议，从而让生物样本库界在应对未来紧急情况时能处于更有利的位置。
