Comparison Chart of Guidelines

For each guideline, the table addresses biobanking development steps in either of the following three levels of detail:

  • mentioned, or
  • guidelines (detailed enough to dress a protocol/ model), or
  • protocols/ model (ready to be followed, to be used)
Author(s)/organization OECDExternal ISBERExternal IARCExternal, WHOExternal NCIExternal, NIHExternal, HHSExternal ABNExternal EHRMExternal RANDExternal INSERMExternal, AFNORExternal
Publication date 2007 2008 2007 2007 2007 2002 2003 2008
Country International (28 countries) International Forum based in United States Worldwide Directors of National Cancer Centres United States Australia Finland United States France
Document link guidelinesPDF guidelinesPDF guidelinesPDF guidelinesPDF guidelinesPDF guidelinesPDF guidelinesPDF guidelinesPDF
Sample type(s) Wide: human, animal and plant, and micro-organism Human: blood, urine, tissues, nails, saliva, breast milk etc Human: blood (plasma, serum, white blood cells), buffy coat, urine, buccal cells, saliva, bronchoalveolar lavage, bone marrow aspirate, fine needle aspirate, cerebrospinal fluid, semen, cervical and urethral swabs, hair, nail Human : blood and solid tissue mentionned but not extensively Human: blood,(serum, plasma, white blood cells, buffy coat), Urine, buccal cells, bone marrow Human: blood Human: blood, serum, tumor, tissues Wide: human
Steps/ areas covered Infrastructure/ Apparatus guidelines (appartus maintenance) protocols (ventilation, temperature, lighting etc..) protocols (temperature for devices)     guidelines   guidelines
Biosafety guidelines guidelines guidelines guidelines   guidelines    
Staff training guidelines guidelines (emergency) mentionned guidelines       guidelines
Ethics guidelines guidelines (privacy rules, consent form, IRB) mentionned guidelines (consent form, privacy protection) Model (consent form) guidelines guidelines  
Intellectual Property     mentionned guidelines     guidelines  
Clinical Data Management     protocols guidelines guidelines model of questionnaire, protocols for anthropometric measures    
Sample Traceability/ Labelling mentionned guidelines guidelines guidelines   guidelines guidelines  
Sample type choice   discussion (advantage-inconvenient balance) discussion (advantage-inconvenient balance) discussion (advantage-inconvenient balance) discussion (advantage-inconvenient balance)      
Sample Collection and Processing mentionned guidelines (sample type-dependent) protocols (sample type-dependent) guidelines protocols (sample type-dependent) protocols guidelines mentionned
Sample-derived data management guidelines (minimum and recommended data set: MDS and RDS) guidelines guidelines (minimum information) guidelines   guidelines guidelines guidelines
Sample Storage guidelines (sample type-dependent) guidelines (aliquoting, sample type-dependent) protocols (sample type-dependent) guidelines protocols (sample type-dependent) protocols guidelines mentionned
Quality Control guidelines (methods validation; sample quality) protocols (for all SOPs) guidelines guidelines guidelines (materials and sample type-dependent), protocols (RNA) guidelines guidelines protocols (on all topics)
Transportation/ shipping mentionned guidelines protocols guidelines guidelines (sample type-dependent)     mentionned
Funds/ Sustainibility mentionned   mentionned       guidelines  
Access to data/ Transfert mentionned guidelines guidelines Model (material transfert agreement) guidelines guidelines guidelines guidelines
Informatics support guidelines mentionned (security) mentionned guidelines (caBIG system)     guidelines guidelines
Other Recapitulative tables on requirement for each topics (sample type-dependent): maintenance, storage, ethics etc... Sources websites for every topics (biosafety, shipping, processing protocols etc...) Table mentionning 16 other biorepository guidelines (ISBER, ABN, OECD, NCI, WHO, RAND, etc...)   protocols for RNA and genomic DNA isolation and stable cell lines generation Laboratory suppliers suggestion (for reagent and apparatus) Suggestion of the sample future use depending on the sample type Useful guidelines to build a study/biobank: Indicators for risk factors that could be used for background, Sample size discussion, target population, recruitment procedures, duration of surveys, questionnaire administration etc... Evaluation and comparison of tissues and processes from 12 tissue repositories in USA, Comparison table for all 12 biobanks Table that lists of all documents required to assess good quality at eahc step Table comparing ISO 9001/2000 norms and BRC standards
Certification-orientated? Yes (3 phases)           RAND evaluation Yes ISO 9001
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