The existing biorepository landscape is highly heterogeneous and populated with individual laboratory collections, private collections, organism-specific collections, government collections, select-agent collections, user-group collections, geographical collections, and large-scale public or commercial collections.
This observation enlightens strain redundancy that may exist in laboratory collections, probably because these collections are mostly constituted from phenotypic characterizations.
Plasma samples were obtained only from indwelling catheters or during scheduled laboratory collections.
MOSAIc involves no additional treatments, visits, or laboratory collections beyond those occurring within the course of normal care.
There are no additional treatments, visits, or laboratory collections required beyond those occurring within the course of normal care.
Neutrophil and platelet counts, hepatic transaminase (ALT and AST) levels, and lipid levels were monitored by routine laboratory collections at scheduled visits (see Laboratory assessments later).
While annotation from these resources can be accessed through web-based homology searches, for many laboratory collections of ESTs it is difficult to use existing tools to achieve a systems-level view of gene functions and relationships.
This study was strengthened by use of an ecologic design in which all isolates were systematically and purposively selected over the same period of time and geographic area (17, 23 ), rather than sampling haphazardly by using existing clinical laboratory collections.
Instead, the team had to gather together the world's entire laboratory collection of treponematoses, and collect strains of the disease in wild baboons and rabbits.
The course offers six different experiments from the advanced laboratory collection.
