tissuesuch
Tissuesuch is a term used to describe the set of processes, tools, and standards involved in locating and retrieving tissue samples and tissue-related data across biological repositories, clinical archives, and digital platforms. The word combines tissue with the German word Suche, meaning search, underscoring its focus on discovery and retrieval in both laboratory and informatics contexts. In practice, tissuesuch encompasses physical inventory management as well as computational search across heterogeneous data sources.
Its scope includes tracking of physical specimens through barcodes and RFID tagging, organizing tissue microarrays, and
Applications of tissuesuch appear in biobanking, retrospective research using tissue cohorts, and digital pathology workflows that
Challenges include achieving semantic interoperability across institutions, maintaining data quality and completeness of metadata, safeguarding patient
Related concepts include biobanking, histology, digital pathology, data management, and ontology-based search.