Contributors: Igor Engel, Thomas Ganslandt 

Relevance & Approach

Large collections of biosamples e.g. from tumors or "remainder" material from routine clinical laboratories play an increasing role in translational research. The intuitive query capabilities of i2b2 make it an ideal platform for querying combined data from clinical or study records, biosamples, and analysis data gained from biomaterial. Importing biosample data into i2b2, however, has so far required individually coded ETL pathways.

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