A roadmap towards Ireland’s membership of BBMRI-ERIC [version 2; peer review: 1 approved, 3 approved with reservations] [PDF]
Background BioBANC Symposium has become a key forum for the Irish biobanking community. The third annual event focused on networking and quality, featuring a workshop to explore the role and value of networked biobanking for Ireland. The Director General
Nicola Miller +6 more
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Linking the ECRIN Metadata Repository with the BBMRI-ERIC Directory to connect clinical studies with related biobanks and collections [version 2; peer review: 1 approved, 2 approved with reservations] [PDF]
Background There is much value to be gained by linking clinical studies and (biosample-) collections that have been generated in the context of a clinical study. However, the linking problem is hard because usually no direct references between a clinical
Christian Ohmann +8 more
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A comprehensive European Colorectal Cancer Cohort dataset [PDF]
Colorectal cancer (CRC) is a leading cause of cancer-related deaths worldwide. The Biobanking and Biomolecular Resources European Research Infrastructure (BBMRI-ERIC) established a CRC-Cohort with European coverage contributed by 26 biobanks from 12 ...
Petr Holub +81 more
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Privacy-preserving data quality assessment for federated health data networks [PDF]
Background Assessing data quality in federated health data systems presents unique challenges, particularly when data custodians cannot expose raw data due to privacy regulations. Traditional quality assessment approaches often require centralised access,
Radovan Tomášik +6 more
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The European Health Data Space and biobanking in Europe: synergies, tensions and the future governance of data-driven health research [PDF]
The European Health Data Space (EHDS) represents the most ambitious attempt to date to create a common legal, technical and governance framework for the use of health data across the European Union.
Laura Grech +3 more
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Empowering cancer research in Europe: the EUCAIM cancer imaging infrastructure [PDF]
Artificial intelligence (AI) is a powerful technology with the potential to disrupt cancer detection, diagnosis and treatment. However, the development of new AI algorithms requires access to large and complex real-world datasets.
Luis Martí-Bonmatí +18 more
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Background Informed consent forms for clinical research are several and variable at international, national and local levels. According to the literature, they are often unclear and poorly understood by participants.
Cinzia Colombo +10 more
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Paediatric biobanking for health: The ethical, legal, and societal landscape
Biobanks play a central role in pediatric translational research, which deals primarily with genetic data from sample-based research. However, participation of children in biobanking has received only limited attention in the literature, even though ...
Sara Casati +5 more
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Lightweight Distributed Provenance Model for Complex Real–world Environments
Provenance is information describing the lineage of an object, such as a dataset or biological material. Since these objects can be passed between organizations, each organization can document only parts of the objects life cycle.
Rudolf Wittner +7 more
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Ethical layering in AI-driven polygenic risk scores—New complexities, new challenges
Researchers aim to develop polygenic risk scores as a tool to prevent and more effectively treat serious diseases, disorders and conditions such as breast cancer, type 2 diabetes mellitus and coronary heart disease. Recently, machine learning techniques,
Marie-Christine Fritzsche +10 more
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