Data Sharing Challenges and Recommendations for Human Biorepositories: A Systematic Literature Review

Abstract

Biorepositories collect biospecimens like blood and tissue from the p atients along with associated clinical and pathological data. Medical research tends to require sharing of biospecimens and associated data at a large scale across multiple biorepositories. The objective of this review is to identify issues faced and recommendations made in sharing biospecimens data. Our review identified that significant amount of work has been done in the past and biorepositories can take advantage of this work by working collectively.