Collections for general biobanking are usually unplanned, i.e., there are no specific time-points, and specimens get collected whenever they are available. For such cases, the unplanned specimen collection workflow of OpenSpecimen is best suited. You can use the add unplanned specimens page to do the following:
Collect unplanned specimens of the same type
This is used when you are collecting multiple specimens with exact same properties.
Collect unplanned specimens of different types
This can be used when you collect multiple specimens of "almost" same properties. Here you enter the properties of the first sample and make copies of it to make any minor changes to the copy.
Create aliquots while collecting unplanned specimens
When copying, you can either copy with the aliquots or without aliquots.
This was added as a feature in v5.0