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specimen

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A material entity that has the specimen role.

Term info

Label

specimen

definition source

GROUP: OBI Biomaterial Branch

editor note

Note: definition is in specimen creation objective which is defined as an objective to obtain and store a material entity for potential use as an input during an investigation.

example of usage

Biobanking of blood taken and stored in a freezer for potential future investigations stores specimen.

has curation status

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/IAO_0000122

term editor

PERSON: Philippe Rocca-Serra, PERSON: James Malone