Name of the biobank (when available), country	Date established	Size	Type of biobank	Host organization	Country or region	References
80 biobanks in Western Australia [this group did not a formal name], Australia	proposed biobank	Not available	Disease‐specific &. Population biobank	Department of Health WA	Perth, Western Australia, Australia	Molster et al 35
Association Française contre les Myopathies, France	1958	Not available	Disease‐specific biobank	AFM (Association Francaise contre les Myopathies) financed by Telethon	France	Rabeharisoa 42
Alaska Area Specimen Bank (AASB), United States	1961	266 353 residual biologic specimens (serum, plasma, whole blood, tissue, bacterial cultures) from 83 841 persons who participated in research studies	Population biobank	Alaska Natives (Indian Self Determination Act (Public Law 93‐638 (1975))	Alaska, USA	Parkinson et al 39
Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALPSAC), United Kingdom	1991‐2	Not available	Population biobank	University of Bristol (Medical Research Council, the Wellcome Trust)	Bristol/Bath, UK	Levitt 56
BC Biobank, Canada	2007	Not available	Population biobank	University Of British Columbia Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, the Canadian Tissue Repository Network and the BC Cancer Agency	British Columbia, Canada	Walmsley, 22 Walmsley 51
BC Biolibrary, Canada	2007	Not available	not a biobank, a network to integrate and improve access and quality of several provincial biobanks	University of British Columbia	British Columbia, Canada	O'Doherty and Hawkins, 24 O'Doherty et al, 57 Secko, 73
CARTaGENE, Canada	Not available	aims to recruit a random sample of 50 000 individuals between the age of 25 and 75	Population biobank	Sainte‐Justine Children's Hospital University Health Center	Quebec, Canada	Godard et al, 47 O'Doherty and Burgess 59
Centre for Alaska Native Health Research (CANHR), United States	Not available	30% of eligible individuals (5000 eligible?)	Population biobank	Centre for Alaska Native Health Research (CANHR)	Canada	Boyer et al 60
Generation Scotland, United Kingdom	Not available	large family‐based cohort study (recruiting from age group 35‐55) with the eventual goal of collecting blood for the purpose of extracting DNA from 50 000 individuals	Population biobank	Partnership ‐ four Scottish universities & NHS Scotland	Scotland, UK	Haddow 38
GHC/UW, United States	1994	1200 living participants; 1700 deceased	Disease‐specific biobank	eMERGE Network ‐ National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI)	Seattle area, Washington, USA	Lemke et al 61
Inherited Cancer Connect (ICCon) database, Australia	2013	Not available	Disease‐specific biobank	Inherited Cancer Connect (ICCon) Partnership ‐ Cancer Council of New South Wales, Australia	Australia	Forrest et al 34
International HapMap Project, United States, Japan, China, Nigeria	since 1980s	Not available	Population biobank	International HapMap Consortium	USA, Japan, China, Nigeria	Rotimi et al, 61 Terry et al 37
Kaiser Permanente, United States	2005	All diseases represented in patient population – 160 000	Population biobank	eMERGE Network ‐ National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI)	Northern California, USA	Lemke et al 61
Kilifi Genetic Birth Cohort (KGBC), Kenya	1989	aims to recruit 12 000 infants	Disease‐specific biobank	Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI) ‐ Wellcome Trust Research Programme + MalariaGEN Consortium	Kenya	Marsh et al 63
Melbourne Genomics Health Alliance, Australia	2014	Not available	Population biobank	Partnership ‐ 10 research organizations & hospitals	Melbourne, Australia	Watson 63 ‐ Melbourne Genomics Health Alliance Community Advisory Group 65
Metastatic Breast Cancer Alliance Biobank, United States	proposed biobank	Not available	Disease‐specific biobank	Metastatic Breast Cancer Alliance	USA	Flowers et al 66
Multisite keloid study, Nigeria	2005	4200 samples from participants from 103 families	Disease‐specific biobank	University of Connecticut Health Center (UCHC) General Clinical Research Center (GCRC) & LAUTECH in Osogbo and UCH in Ibadan	Ibadan (Oyo State) and Osogbo (Osun State), Nigeria	Olaitan et al 67
NUgene, United States	2001	All diseases represented in patient population	Population biobank	Northwestern University ‐ University medical centre ‐ eMERGE Network ‐ National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI)	Chicago area, Illinois, US	Lemke et al 61
Nottingham Health Science Biobank, United Kingdom	2011	The aim is to consent every patient at the time of first presentation at our hospital and those referred for surgery and treatment after diagnosis (ongoing)	Population biobank	Nottingham University NHS Hospitals Trust	Nottingham, UK	Mitchell et al, 3 Wilcox et al 21
Patients' Tumor Bank of Hope (PATH Biobank), Germany	2002	Approximately 7500 patients have consented to be donors with seven sample source sites across Germany (ongoing)	Disease‐specific biobank	PATH Foundation, Germany	Germany	Mitchell et al 3
Peninsula Research Bank (PRB), United Kingdom	Not available	Not available	Population biobank	PenCLARHC: Peninsula Collaboration for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care ‐ NIHR Exeter Clinical Research Facility (CRF)	Exeter, UK	Jenner et al 52
Personalized Medicine Research Project (PMRP), United States	2002	All diseases represented in patient population – 20 000	Population biobank	Marshfield Clinic ‐ Medical centre ‐ eMERGE Network ‐ National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI)	Central Wisconsin, USA	Lemke et al, 61 McCarty et al 12
PXE International Blood and Tissue Bank, United States	1995	Not available	Disease‐specific biobank	PXE International	USA	Terry et al 43
Roswell Park Cancer Institute DataBank and Biorepository, United States	Not available	Not available	Disease‐specific biobank	Roswell Park Cancer Institute Alliance Foundation and NIH ‐ National Cancer Institute (NCI)	Niagara Falls, NY, USA	Erwin et al 68
Tasmania Biobank, Australia	hypothesized biobank	Not available	Not available	Not available	Tasmania, Australia	McWhirter et al, 50 Chalmers et al 4
Telethon Network of Genetic Biobanks (TNGB), Italy	2008	90 000 biological samples representing approximately 850 distinct rare genetic diseases	Disease‐specific biobank	a consortium of 11 Italian non‐profits supported by the Telethon Foundation	Italy	Filocamo et al, 40 Baldo et al 41
The Breast Cancer Campaign Tissue Bank (BCCTB), United Kingdom	2010	8230 samples	Disease‐specific biobank	Breast Cancer Now and 5 UK universities	UK	Wilcox et al 21
The Mayo Clinic Biobank, United States	2009	The target goal is to obtain 50 000 biospecimens (ongoing)	Population biobank	Mayo Clinic, Rochester	Minnesota, USA	Lemke et al, 60 Olson et al, 36 Kimball et al, 16 Mitchell et al 3
UC Biobank, United States	hypothesized biobank	Not available	Not available	EngageUC (UC Davis, UC Irvine, UC Los Angeles, UC San Diego, and UC San Francisco)	USA	Dry et al 68
UK Biobank, United Kingdom	2000	aims to enroll 500 000 participants aged 45‐69 for a period of several year	Population biobank	MRC/Wellcome Trust	UK	Levitt and Weldon, 70 Levitt, 56 People Science & Policy Ltd 71
BioVU, United States	2007	All diseases represented in patient population	Population biobank	eMERGE Network ‐ National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI)	Tennessee, USA	Lemke et al 61
Wales Cancer Bank, United Kingdom	2004	Currently 12 000 patients (ongoing)	Disease‐specific biobank	Cardiff University	Wales, UK	Mitchell et al, 3 NIHR Cancer Research Network (NCRN) report 72
						Bossert et al 31 ; Coors et al 32 ; Lemke et al 33