biobank

English

Etymology

From bio- +‎ bank.

Noun

biobank (plural biobanks)

1. (biology) Any of several types of repository of biological material (e.g. seeds) or information (e.g. DNA).

   Hyponym: cryobank

   • 2016, Alysson Bessani et al, "BiobankCloud: A Platform for the Secure Storage, Sharing, and Processing of Large Biomedical Data Sets" (abstract), Biomedical Data Management and Graph Online Querying.

     Biobanks store and catalog human biological material that is increasingly being digitized using next-generation sequencing (NGS).

Derived terms

• biobanker
• biobanking

Translations

any of several types of repository of material

• Catalan: biobanc m
• Finnish: biopankki
• Greek: βιοτράπεζα (el) f (viotrápeza)
• Irish: bithbhanc m

Verb

biobank (third-person singular simple present biobanks, present participle biobanking, simple past and past participle biobanked)

1. (biology, transitive) To store (biological material) in a biobank.