specimen

PERSON: James Malone

PERSON: Philippe Rocca-Serra

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.

A material entity that has the specimen role.

GROUP: OBI Biomaterial Branch

A jar of water, the microbes that were filtered from that water, the DNA extracted from those microbes, a subsample of that DNA.

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

A herbarium or museum specimen.

specimen