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Meaning of biobank | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B1

Definitions

Any of several types of repository of biological material (e.g. seeds) or information (e.g. DNA).

Equivalents

Ελληνικά βιοτράπεζα
Suomi biopankki
Gaeilge bithbhanc

Examples

“2016, Alysson Bessani et al, "BiobankCloud: A Platform for the Secure Storage, Sharing, and Processing of Large Biomedical Data Sets" (abstract), Biomedical Data Management and Graph Online Querying. Biobanks store and catalog human biological material that is increasingly being digitized using next-generation sequencing (NGS).”

CEFR level

B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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