An informatics model for tissue banks – Lessons learned from the Cooperative Prostate Cancer Tissue Resource

Ashokkumar A Patel^1* , John R Gilbertson^1* , Anil V Parwani¹ , Rajiv Dhir¹ , Milton W Datta² , Rajnish Gupta¹ , Jules J Berman³ , Jonathan Melamed⁴ , Andre Kajdacsy-Balla⁵ , Jan Orenstein⁶ , Michael J Becich¹ and the Cooperative Prostate Cancer Tissue Resource

¹  Department of Pathology, Center for Pathology Informatics, Benedum Oncology Informatics Center, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

²  Departments of Pathology and Urology, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA

³  Cancer Diagnosis Program, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA

⁴  Departments of Pathology, New York University, New York, NY, USA

⁵  Departments of Pathology, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA

⁶  Departments of Pathology, George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA