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Record W4415720390 · doi:10.1177/19475535251392783

Evaluating Decisions on Primary Sample Aliquot Volumes Based on Experience of Utilization: Recommendations for Today’s Biobanks

2025· article· en· W4415720390 on OpenAlexafffundabout
Treena McDonald, Noah D. Frank, L. Anne Hayman, Jason Hicks, Travis J. Hrubeniuk, Catherine Labbé, Laurie Lange, Kelly McDonald, Jennifer E. Vena, Jing Zhang, Peter H. Watson

Bibliographic record

VenueBiopreservation and Biobanking · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldMedicine
TopicEthics in Clinical Research
Canadian institutionsUniversity of VictoriaAlberta Cancer FoundationAlberta Health ServicesCentre Hospitalier Universitaire Sainte-JustineDalhousie UniversitySaskatchewan Cancer AgencyCancerCare ManitobaBC Cancer FoundationOntario Institute for Cancer ResearchPublic Health Ontario
FundersUniversité de MontréalUniversity of TorontoDalhousie UniversityPartenariat Canadien Contre Le CancerSaskatchewan Cancer AgencyFaculty of Medicine, University of British ColumbiaMcGill University
KeywordsBiobankSample (material)General partnershipLarge sampleDownstream (manufacturing)

Abstract

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The Canadian Partnership for Tomorrow's Health (CanPath) reflects upon its original decisions around sample aliquoting strategies for its specimen inventory based on what is now commonly released to researchers. We propose an updated aliquoting strategy for new collections that balances upfront resources with volumes sought for downstream analysis. This updated aliquoting strategy will help inform teams establishing new biobanks or managing existing biobanks that are considering new collections.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.002
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.026
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMetaresearch
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Other design · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.637
Threshold uncertainty score0.982

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0020.026
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.740
GPT teacher head0.623
Teacher spread0.117 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

Study designOther design
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Published2025
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