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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

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.

See also

biobanker biobanking biobarcode biobarrier biobattery biobed