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PRESS RELEASE: SAMRC software provides affordable access to ethical biobanking activities

Posted on 14th June 2017 By

9 June 2017 | Cape Town | The South African Medical Research Council (SAMRC) has developed an open-source laboratory information management system (LIMS) software to give researchers affordable access to human biobanking activities.

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Consult the Biobanking Factsheet- BAOBAB LIMS.

Biobanking, Dissemination, News, Technical Component

The April 2017 issue of Biopreservation and Biobanking contains a special section on the H3Africa biorepositories, including six papers authored by H3Africa biorepositories, with several co-authors also involved in the B3Africa project.

Posted on 11th May 2017 By

The special section also includes a paper on the Baobab Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS), an opensource LIMS for biobanking that has been developed within the framework of the H3Africa and B3Africa initiatives and that will be integrated into the eB3Kit.

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Video recordings on the BiBBoX & APPs installation are now available on the B3Africa Learning Space

Posted on 10th May 2017 By

Primarly dedicated to IT focal points from B3Africa pilot institutions, the B3Africa webinar on the BiBBoX, held on 27 April 2017, attracted 16 biobank professionals from 10 countries!

Video recordings, PPT slides and Questions & Answers are now available on the B3Africa Learning Space for all biobank professionals interested in learning more about:

How to instal the BiBBoX on your system
What is the philosophy of the eB3Kit applications (APPs), how to install an APP, how an APP is built in the background and what happens inside the machine
How to use BiBBoX applications to generate data

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PRESS RELEASE: SAMRC software provides affordable access to ethical biobanking activities

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The April 2017 issue of Biopreservation and Biobanking contains a special section on the H3Africa biorepositories, including six papers authored by H3Africa biorepositories, with several co-authors also involved in the B3Africa project.

Video recordings on the BiBBoX & APPs installation are now available on the B3Africa Learning Space