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. 2015 Aug 1;13(4):271–279. doi: 10.1089/bio.2014.0050

Table 3.

Study Period Request Summary—Successful Biospecimen Requests by Open vs. Proprietary Collection Status

  2 Years Prior to BioLINCC 1 Year Prior to BioLINCC BioLINCC Transition (pre-Website) Online Year 1 10/2009–9/2010 Online Year 2 10/2010–9/2011 Online Year 3 10/2011–9/2012 Online Year 4 10/2012–9/2013
Open requests / (aliquots identified) 5 / (226) 5 / (1,975) 9 / (4,646) 14 / (14,351) 50 / (55,682) 54 / (66,481) 18 / (18,159)
Proprietary requests / (aliquots identified) 7 / (20,348) 8 / (10,421) 10 / (30,595) 9 / (6,990) 4 / (1,815) 1 / (1,400) 4 / (2,654)
Total requests with successful searches 12 13 19 23 54 55 22
Total aliquots identified 20,574 12,396 35,241 21,341 57,497 67,881 20,813
% requests from open studies 42% 38% 47% 61% 93% 98% 82%
% aliquots from open studies 1% 16% 13% 67% 97% 98% 87%