Biobanks offer access to a large pool of high-quality human biosamples and the associated data. They are reliable addresses for the storage and processing of samples from clinical studies or other sources. In this way, they create important prerequisites for reproducible research results.
The times when human biosamples were collected "wild" are increasingly becoming a thing of the past. Today, most university hospitals have centralised biobanks ("core facilities") in which all collections are stored - from clinical routine, research and clinical studies. These biobanks are ultra-modern, partly robot-controlled cold storage facilities that are linked to high-performance databases. The samples are monitored there around the clock.