What is the purpose of having a central repository?
A central repository allows additional studies on samples and data collected in significant studies, enhancing the value of each study. It also ensures that samples are stored under uniform conditions, and simplifies access by other scientists to samples. Similarly, reposited datasets can be maintained, queried, and reconfigured to facilitate new analyses after the Data Coordinating Center closes. Another important goal of the repository is to allow cost effective and high quality processing of genetic samples.
