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The Da Vinci European BioBank: A Metabolomics-Driven Infrastructure
Dario Carotenuto1, Claudio Luchinat2,3, Giordana Marcon4
1Da Vinci European BioBank, FiorGen Foundation, via Sacconi 6, 50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Florence, Italy. dario.carotenuto@gmail.com.
Abstract:
We present here the organization of the recently-constituted da Vinci European BioBank (daVEB, https://www.davincieuropeanbiobank.org/it). The biobank was created as an infrastructure to support the activities of the Fiorgen Foundation (http://www.fiorgen.net/), a nonprofit organization that promotes research in the field of pharmacogenomics and personalized medicine. The way operating procedures concerning samples and data have been developed at daVEB largely stems from the strong metabolomics connotation of Fiorgen and from the involvement of the scientific collaborators of the foundation in international/European projects aimed to tackle the standardization of pre-analytical procedures and the promotion of data standards in metabolomics.
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