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biobanks

biobanks is the plural of biobank.

Meaning of biobank

Noun

biobank (plural biobanks)

  1. Any of several types of repository of biological material (e.g. seeds) or information (e.g. DNA).
    • Biobanks store and catalog human biological material that is increasingly being digitized using next-generation sequencing (NGS).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.

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Questions about biobanks

What is biobanks the plural of?
Biobanks is the plural of biobank.

Words near biobanks in the dictionary

  1. biobank
  2. biobanked
  3. biobanker
  4. biobankers
  5. biobanking
  6. biobanks
  7. biobarcode
  8. biobarcodes
  9. biobarrier
  10. biobarriers
  11. biobased

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