System for Managing Biologic Specimens

A new system for tracking biologic samples is designed to provide accurate, compliant, and efficient management of biospecimens in the laboratory.

The Sapphire BioBanking Solution was developed in conjunction with the original developers of the Spectrum respository management tool. Although many software products already address smaller pieces of sample management, LabVantage (Bridgewater, NJ, USA) has recognized the need to bring together "best of breed” information management, location tracking, logistics, and compliance features to the life sciences industry.

Sapphire BioBanking is designed to address the unique challenges of specimen collection and banking for clinical operations and pharmaceutical discovery, academic and bioscience research centers, medical institutions, and contract research organizations. It provides a browser-based user interface for quick user acceptance and a built-in Evergreen configuration tool to tailor the same solution to the needs of each laboratory within an organization. This flexibility allows Sapphire BioBanking to readily adapt to a variety of data capture, result management, storage, and specimen-handling circumstances.

The biospecimen tracking module is seamlessly integrated with Sapphire's existing laboratory information management solution for life sciences R&D, which can manage experiments and track vital genomic, proteomic, phenotypic, and other result information about samples. Furthermore, it can easily be integrated with third-party public databases, instruments, clinical trial management systems, electronic data capture systems, and existing laboratory information-management systems.

"The introduction of the Sapphire BioBanking solution will allow LabVantage to more fully address the needs of our life sciences customers as large-scale collection of biospecimens becomes more pervasive,” said Jim Aurelio, CEO of LabVantage.




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