Web-based biobank system infrastructure monitoring using Python, Perl, and PHP.
The establishment and maintenance of biobanks is only as worthwhile as the security and logging of the biobank contents. We have designed a monitoring system that continuously measures temperature and gas content, records the movement of samples in and out of the biobank, and also records the opening and closing of the freezers-storing the results and images in a database. We have also incorporated an early warning feature that sends out alerts, via SMS and email, to responsible persons if any measurement is recorded outside the acceptable limits, guaranteeing the integrity of biobanked samples, as well as reagents used in sample analysis. A surveillance system like this increases the value for any biobank as the initial investment is small and the value of having trustworthy samples for future research is high.
1 SLU Global Bioinformatics Centre, Department of Animal Breeding and Genetics (HGEN), Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU) , Uppsala, Sweden .
Martin
M
Norling
Absolomon
A
Kihara
Steve
S
Kemp
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