## MEETING ABSTRACT

Open Access

# BBMRI catalogue

Klaus Kuhn*, Raffael Bild, Helmut Spengler

From 1st Clinical Research Informatics (CRI) Solutions Day
Duesseldorf, Germany. 26-27 May 2014

## Characterisation

Biobanks, access to biosamples, BBMRI.

## Description

During the preparatory phase of BBMRI (the European Biobanking and BioMolecular Resources Research Infrastructure), an online catalogue has been established for the collection and presentation of data describing the majority of European biobanks [1]. This catalogue can

be publicly accessed at the web site bbmri.eu (select catalogue and then login as guest). Currently, it contains data from 330 biobanks located in 29 European countries. It can be browsed by different categories, and it contains contact data for each biobank (Figure 1). Browsing options include the numbers of biosamples per biobank and per material type, descriptions of diagnosis groups per biobank, and characterizations of access to data and samples. A search function is provided, allowing the

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* Correspondence: Klaus.Kuhn@lrz.tu-muenchen.de
Chair of Medical Informatics, Technische Universität München, 81675 Munich, Germany
selection of criteria (e.g. according to disease group, type of biomaterial, category of organ, combinations of all these). Figure 1 illustrates these functions. The catalogue is being further developed, with a focus on compatibility to MIABIS [2] and on a data warehouse layer.

**Status of development**

Operational since 2011. It is being further developed in
BBMRI-ERIC.

Users

Scientists, biobank researchers, clinical investigators.

Links

bbmri.eu, bbmri-eric.eu

Published: 22 May 2015

References

1. Wichmann HE, Kuhn KA, Waldenberger M, Schmelcher D, Schuffenhauer S, Meitinger T, et al: Comprehensive catalog of European biobanks. *Nat Biotechnol* 2011, 29(9):795-797.

2. [http://bbmri-wiki.wikidot.com/en:dataset], (last access Nov 6, 2014).

doi:10.1186/2043-9113-5-S1-S19

Cite this article as: Kuhn et al.: BBMRI catalogue. Journal of Clinical Bioinformatics 2015 5(Suppl 1):S19.

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