The main goal of the Working Group is to increase the visibility of the collections available at the BBMRI.be biobanks and to enhance the data quality of the (new and existing) collections included in our online catalogues:
the National Directory of BBMRI.be
the Directory of BBMRI-ERIC
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The main goal of the Working Group is to increase the visibility of the collections available at the BBMRI.be biobanks and to enhance the data quality of the (new and existing) collections included in our online catalogues:
the National Directory of BBMRI.be
the Directory of BBMRI-ERIC
Chairs
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The available collections from all biobanks of BBMRI.be can be found in the BBMRI-BE Directory
The BBMRI.be Directory is a collection level catalog which gives you a glance of the material that is available at our biobanks and is freely available for all researchers.
In the Directory, you can filter the biobanks with your criteria. After the search, you can contact all biobanks of interest at once through the communication platform of BBMRI-ERIC (the Negotiator). The Negotiator substantially simplifies the communication steps that are necessary to obtain information on the availability of relevant samples/data, particularly if the researchers need to communicate with multiple candidate biobanks.
If you do not find the samples you are looking for in the BBMRI.be Directory, then go have look at the BBMRI-ERIC Directory, the biggest biobanking catalogue on the globe,w hich harbours all collections of BBMRI-ERIC.
The data in the Directory can be consulted on the homepage of the Directory by all users (no login is required).
More detailed information on the different options can be found in this document: Consult data in Directory – BBMRI.be
To update the data of your biobank in the Directory, you need to login (one login available per biobank). Contact us (secretariat.BBMRIbe@kankerregister.org) if you would need a login for your biobank.
Updates can be done either manually via “Advanced search” in the web application or by uploading an excel file via “Import Data”.
When using the “import data” option, make sure to start from the most recent data from your biobank.
A step-by-step guide for both update options can be found in this document: Update data in BBMRI.be Directory – BBMRI.be
If you need an excell export of your current data in the Directory as a starting point for your updates, please contact secretariat.BBMRIbe@kankerregister.org
In this document, you can find a manual about the data model and the accepted values for each variable.
This functionality is only possible with an admin account.
Please contact secretariat.BBMRIbe@kankerregister.org to get an excel export of your data.
- Go to https://negotiator.bbmri-eric.eu/login.xhtml
- Try to login through your home institution
- find your institution and log in
- if your institution is not available, try adding it and log in
- if both methods above do not work, register an account with “our Hostel” and log in
- Register with the list of collection IDs you are representing (see Directory)
- BBMRI-ERIC will review your registration and if OK, they approve it – and you are ready to go!
- Receive sample requests!
More detailed information about the Negotiator and a more detailed guide for the registration can be found with the following links:
- Non-human standards, and additional general information:
- The Global Genome Biodiversity Network (GGBN) data standard. Droege, G et al. “The Global Genome Biodiversity Network (GGBN) Data Standard specification.” Database : the journal of biological databases and curation vol. 2016 baw125. 2 Oct. 2016, doi:10.1093/database/baw125
- Natural History Data standards: there is no link provided to a common dataset. An example is the data sets overview by the Natural History Museum (UK): https://data.nhm.ac.uk/dataset/
- Darwin Core (DwC) Wieczorek, John et al. “Darwin Core: an evolving community-developed biodiversity data standard.” PloS one vol. 7,1 (2012): e29715. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0029715
- Prokariotic Nomenclature Up-to-date (PNU) https://lpsn.dsmz.de
- Access to Biological Collection Data: Reimeier, Fabian. ABCD – Access to Biological Collection Data: https://abcd.tdwg.org/
- Microbial Resources & Data – MIRRI-ERIC: https://www.mirri.org/microbial-resources-data/
- ISO/TC 276 – Biotechnology
- A general overview of currently valid standards from ISO/TC 276 – Biotechnology can be found at: https://www.iso.org/committee/4514241/x/catalogue/p/1/u/0/w/0/d/0.
- An overview of standards currently under development can be found at: https://www.iso.org/committee/4514241/x/catalogue/p/0/u/1/w/0/d/0