Creating a successful facility for large-scale extraction of DNA, an example from the Swedish Biobank initiative BBMRI.se

Abstract

Driven by the needs of several large population cohorts, the Biobanking and BioMolecular Resource Infrastructure of Sweden (BBMRI.se) has established, and now operates, a large-scale facility for the rapid purification of high quality DNA from human whole blood at the KI Biobank. The facility has a throughput of up to 1000 whole blood samples per day on two parallel automated systems.