A national service for biobanks: Offers a help desk for biobanking, arranges work shops on quality issues and performs quality studies. 

The Norwegian biobank environment represents a greatly valuable biobank resource that is organized in this Common Service for Biobanking.

Best Biobank Practice, written by  biobank enthusiasts within Biobank Norway, was established in the Biobank Norway 1 project period. The document is dynamic, and will be regularly updated.

Beste praksis for norske biobanker, versjon 2.1 (pdf)

Recommendations for Prospective Clinical Research Biobanks:

Anbefalinger for prospektive kliniske forskningsbiobanker (pdf) 

Publications:

• Ultralow amounts of DNA from long-term archived serum samples produce quality genotypes. Rounge TB, Lauritzen M, Erlandsen SE, Langseth H, Holmen OL, Gislefoss RE. Eur J Hum Genet. 2019 Nov 12