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NCI Best Practices for Biospecimen Resources

The NCI Best Practices for Biospecimen Resources identifies best practices for biospecimen collection, processing, storage, retrieval, and dissemination and addresses concepts of good laboratory practice to ensure a level of consistency and standardization across NCI-supported biospecimen resources.

For more information visit: http://biospecimens.cancer.gov/NCI_Best_Practices_040507.pdf