Gostev, M., A. Faulconbridge, M. Brandizi, J. Fernandez-Banet, U. Sarkans, A. Brazma, and H. Parkinson,
"The BioSample Database (BioSD) at the European Bioinformatics Institute.",
Nucleic Acids Res, vol. 40, issue Database issue, pp. D64-70, 2012 Jan.
The BioSample Database is a new database at EBI that stores information about biological samples used in molecular experiments, such as sequencing, gene expression or proteomics. The goals of the BioSample Database include: (i) recording and linking of sample information consistently within EBI databases such as ENA, ArrayExpress and PRIDE; (ii) minimizing data entry efforts for EBI database submitters by enabling submitting sample descriptions once and referencing them later in data submissions to assay databases and (iii) supporting cross database queries by sample characteristics. Each sample in the database is assigned an accession number.