Biobanking and Pathology

If you are a biobank manager or a pathologist looking for an information system capable of managing, tracking and annotating your biospecimen collection we have two great options for you. 

BIGR® :

Biomaterials & Information for Genomics Research.

BIGR® is designed to operate commercial biobanks, large institute and multi-institute biospecimen research collections. The BIGR® package contains over 75 different disease modules whose vocabularies simplify annotating and managing the diverse specimen collections found in hospitals and academic medical centers that treat a cross section of patients and operate complex trials. This proven commercial software is currently in release 5.7 and has been used to manage biospecimen collections for nearly a decade. HealthCare IT software development engineers, consultants and deployment teams are ready to support your implementation today whether the system is deployed at your site or hosted in our data center. To learn more about how our biospecimen management software can help you today click here.

 

caTissue Suite:

The nation’s premier cancer biospecimen management application.

caTissue is an open source biospecimen inventory management application developed by the Cancer Biomedical Informatics Grid (caBIG®) program. Behind caTissue resides the most sophisticated vocabulary resource services in biomedical research today. When these vocabulary services are combined with the capabilities of the national cancer grid (caGrid) cancer researchers are able to both syntatically and symantically share data in a fully interoperable way between research centers. This level of interoperablity opens new avenues of collaboration in cancer research that have not been possible before. We have made it easy for you to get access to this ground breaking software by offering it as a service from our hosting facilities on an easy to get monthly subscription basis. This cost effective method allows research groups of any size to manage their repository and participate in the national cancer biospecimen inventory. To learn about the cancer biomedical informatics grid biospecimen management application caTissue click here.