Editorial to the Chinese Translation of the4th Edition of ISBER Best Practices

Twenty years ago the term 'biobanking' was used infrequently to describe a set of activities relating to the collection of biological material within a limited scope of actions.However,the creation of high-profile projects of international significance and with multiple contributors often at very different locations and contexts,such as the Human Genome Project,brought forward the realization that a set of biobanking best practices was required that would procure research-ready tissues of high quality,reproducibility,and comparability.