Resources

As a national service, we offer a help desk for biobanking, arrange workshops on quality issues and performs quality studies. 

The Norwegian biobank environment represents a greatly valuable biobank resource that is organized in Common Service for Biobanking.

Common Services -
Quality Biobanking


Recommendations for Prospective Clinical Research Biobanks

This guide contains a number of general recommendations for sample logistics, requirements for sample packages for blood and tissue, and a review of cost elements to be used in calculating the cost of using general research biobanks.

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Best Biobanking Practice for Norwegian Biobanks

Our "Best Biobank Practice" is a dynamic document, and will be regularly updated.

Download Norwegian version 3.0. (pdf)

Haplin - Genetic Association Analyses

Haplin is an open source R-package for analyzing case-parent triad data with or without independent controls, using candidate genes or GWAS data.

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Highlighted
Publications


Stabilitet av DNA-prøver ved mer enn 20 års lagringstid – erfaringer fra Helseundersøkelsen i Trøndelag (HUNT)
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What motivates or discourages young adults from participating in population-based surveys?
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Toward a More General Consent for the Use of Patients’ Biological Material and Health Information for Medical Research—The Patient Perspective
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Participant engagement and involvement in longitudinal cohort studies: qualitative insights from a selection of pregnancy and birth, twin, and family-based population cohort studies
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Dynamic governance: A new era for consent for stem cell research
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Effect of Storage Time up to Nine Years at -25°C on 15 Selected Biochemical Serum Components
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Ultralow amounts of DNA from long-term archived serum samples produce quality genotypes
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Other Key
Resources


Common Services -
Computational Infrastructure