Abbreviations
1D - 1 dimensional
2D - 2 dimensional
AI - Artificial Intelligence
API - Application Programming Interface
ASCP BOC - American Society for Clinical Pathology’s Board of Certification
ATiM - Advanced Tissue Management
BAP - Biorepository Accreditation Program
BBMRI-ERIC - Biobanking and Biomolecular Resources Research Infrastructure – European Research Infrastructure Consortium
BBRB - Biorepositories and Biospecimen Research Branch
BC - British Columbia
BIMS - Biobank Inventory Management System
BP - Business plan
BRD - Biospecimen Research Database
BRISQ - Biospecimen reporting for improved study quality
BSC - Biological safety cabinet
CAP - College of American Pathologists
CAPA - Corrective/preventive actions
CD markers - Cluster of differentiation markers
CA - Confidentiality Agreement
cDNA - Complementary DNA
CIHR - Canadian Institutes of Health Research
CRCC - Canada Research Coordinating Committee
CSF - Cerebral spinal fluid
CTC - Circulating tumor cell
CTRNet - Canadian Tissue Repository Network
DMP - Data management plan
DMS - Data management system
DMSO - Dimethyl sulfoxide
DNA - Deoxyribonucleic acid
EDI - Equity, Diversity and Inclusion
EDTA - Ethylene diamine tetraacetic acid
ELISA - Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay
ELSI - Ethical, Legal and Social Implications
ER - Estrogen Receptor
FAIR - Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable
FFPE - Formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded
GB - Gigabyte
GDPR - General Data Protection Regulation
HIPAA - Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act
HREC - Human Research Ethics Committees
HVAC - Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning
IaaS - Infrastructure as a Service
IATA - International Air Transport Association
ICAO - International Civil Aviation Organization
ICD - International Classification of Diseases
ID - Identification
IHC - Immunohistochemistry
IP - Intellectual property
IRB - Institutional Review Board
ISBER - International Society of Biological and Environmental Repositories
ISO - International Organization for Standardization
IT - Information technology
JSON - JavaScript Object Notation
KPI - Key performance indicator
LED - Light-emitting diode
LIMS - Laboratory Information Management System
LN2 - Liquid nitrogen
MIABIS - Minimum Information About Biobank Data Sharing
mRNA - Messenger RNA
MS - Microsoft
MTA - Material transfer agreement
NSERC - Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council
OBIB - Ontology for Biobanking
OCT - Optimal cutting temperature compound
PaaS - Platform as a Service
PBMCs - Peripheral blood mononuclear cells
PCR - Polymerase chain reaction
PI - Principal Investigator
PPE - Personal protective equipment
PTC - Permission to Contact
QA - Quality assurance
QBRS - Qualification in Biorepository Science
QC - Quality control
QMS - Quality management system
REB - Research Ethics Board
RFID - Radio-Frequency Identification
RIN - RNA integrity number
RNA - Ribonucleic acid
ROP - Required operational practice
SaaS - Software as a Service
SCC - Standards Council of Canada
SDS - Safety data sheet
SSHRC - Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council
SOP - Standard operating procedure
SPREC - Standard PREanalytical Code
SQL - Structured Query Language
SWOT - Strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats
TCPS 2 - Tri-Council Policy Statement: Ethical Conduct for Research Involving Humans
TMA - Tissue microarray
TTR - Tumour Tissue Repository
ULT - Ultra-low temperature
UN - United Nations
USB - Universal Serial Bus
UV - Ultraviolet
WHMIS - Workplace Hazardous Materials Information System