Is There a Protocol for Using the SPREC?

A new quality management perspective for biodiversity conservation and research: InvestigatingBiospecimenReporting forImprovedStudyQuality (BRISQ) and theStandardPRE-analyticalCode (SPREC) using Natural History Museum and culture collections as case studies

“…Droege, G., Barker, K., Astrin, J. J., Bartels, P., Butler, C., Cantrill, D., ... Seberg, O. and in vitro culture of microalgae (see Table 3). The schematic is adapted from Lehmann et al (2012); Nussbeck et al (2013); Nanni et al (2012) Plunge whole specimen or sub-sampled tissue from nonviable specimen into liquid LN or vapour phase LN in dry shipper.…”

“…Clinical and non-clinical biorepositories have cooperated to generate BPs and guidelines to improve the quality of their collections and there is a strong, united consensus across biobanking communities for standardization (Benson et al, 2011a(Benson et al, , 2011b(Benson et al, , 2013Harding et al, 2013;ISBER, 2012;Nussbeck et al, 2013Nussbeck et al, , 2016Mackenzie-Dodds et al, 2013). The need for interdisciplinary cooperation about data standards and data management was debated at an interactive session of the European, African and Middle Eastern Society for Biopreservation and Biobanking (ESBB) conference.…”

“…On the other hand, the risks of inadequate data reporting may be revealed downstream should sample quality become compromised by a lack of information and insufficient detail about the critical pre-analytical variables to which they have been exposed. These fears can be allayed in part by proof-of-concept evidence from the other biobanking sectors that use BRISQ and SPREC routinely (Moore et al, 2011;Nussbeck et al, 2013). Their experiences affirm that different data may be accommodated to ensure tangible benefits arise from investing in their implementation.…”

“…Similarly, the requirement for comprehensive process chain annotation was first acknowledged by clinical biobanks because a significant number of historical biospecimens were of inadequate quality and analytical results derived from sub-optimally processed samples put at risk data interpretation (Betsou et al, 2010;Nussbeck et al, 2013;Ransohoff and Gourlay, 2010). The purpose of BRISQ is to improve the quality of research generated through the use of biospecimens by presenting in publications and documentation a systematic, standard way of reporting critical information about samples and how they are handled and stored (Moore et al, 2011).…”

“…Once created a SPREC can be updated in line with continuing improvements supported by evidencebased QC tools (Betsou et al, 2013). Biodiversity SPRECs can be produced using simple hand-written codes (Benson et al, 2011a;Harding et al, 2013) or alternatively software tools can be created that automatically generate computerized SPREC barcodes (Lehman et al, 2012;Nanni et al, 2011Nanni et al, , 2012Nussbeck et al, 2013). Once produced in either electronic or hand written formats the codes are permanently assigned to that specimen and all its derivatives and incorporated into quality management documents (Fig.…”