OpenSpecimen is designed to manage multiple biobanks within a single instance of OpenSpecimen. To achieve this, it is important essential to first understand the high-level data organization of OpenSpecimen.
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- One or more super-administrators manage the whole instance.
- The super-admin can view/add/edit data across all biobanks.
- Each biobank can have its own "institute administrator".
- The institute administrator can view/add/edit data across all the studies within that biobank.
- Each biobank can have multiple studies. Users can be assigned roles per study.
How to configure multiple biobanks?
- Create a new "institute" per biobank and assign one or more "institute admin"
- Assign institute admins per biobank
- The institute admin can do all the operations within that institute. E.g., create users, sites, protocols, containers, etc.
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User: John is from "All England" Institute and Site "London Collection Site"
Now it It is decided that samples will be collected in London for the BC_CP. To give John access to it, you need to add "London Collection Site" to the BC_CP's sites list.
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