Every sample,
from consent to distribution.
Specibo manages the full biospecimen lifecycle — collection, consent, QC, storage, request, distribution and shipping — with configurable forms and a query engine that answers a question like “which consented samples from cohort X are still above 2ml” without raising a data request. Built on a proven open-source biobanking core, delivered as managed cloud, on your own servers, or fully air-gapped.
Biospecimens without high-quality data are of no value
Biobanks juggle spreadsheets and LIMS never designed for biospecimens. Consent, chain-of-custody and audit are hard to prove — and increasingly mandated. Capable software exists, and much of it is open source and genuinely free to self-host — if you have the IT department, the compliance staff and the upgrade discipline to run it. Most biobanks do not. Specibo is that capability operated as a product: hosted or installed, kept current, localised, and delivered with the consent and audit machinery already wired up.
Consent & ethics first
Consent is structured data — tiers, responses, withdrawal — designed to gate access rather than sit beside it. Access and lifecycle events are written to a hash-chained ledger you can verify yourself, so chain-of-custody is something you can show, not something you reconstruct.
Configurable without code
Dynamic forms and a query engine let the people who run the biobank adapt it — add a field, change a protocol, build a report — without a developer or an IT ticket.
Localised by design
The interface ships in Kannada, Tamil and English today, on an architecture built to carry the script through to the printed label and the exported PDF — not only the screen.
What it does
The full lifecycle, not an inventory list with a specimen field added to it.
| Specimens | Planned and unplanned collections, aliquots, derivatives, lifecycle events |
|---|---|
| People & consent | Participants, informed consent with tiers and statements, consent-gated access |
| Storage | Containers, positions, inventory, cold chain, labels and barcodes |
| Movement | Requests, distribution protocols, shipping and tracking |
| Configurability | Dynamic forms and fields — add a custom field in minutes, no code |
| Insight | Advanced query language, pivots, scheduled exports, reports |
| Governance | Roles and permissions, complete audit trail, bulk operations, REST APIs |
Deploy your way
One product, one codebase. Where it runs is a deployment choice, not a different edition with different features.
Managed cloud
Run as a managed service, with an isolated database and instance per customer — your data never sits in the same tables as another institution’s.
Managed, in your country
The same managed model, hosted in your own jurisdiction — for the many places where the requirement is where the data lives, not who runs the servers.
On-premise
Inside your institution's network, on your hardware, under your IT's control.
Sovereign
Air-gapped where data residency demands it — the same product, designed to run with no call home.
Serve every user in their language
A biobank's technicians, coordinators and investigators do not all work in English. Specibo is localised rather than translated: the interface ships in Kannada, Tamil and English today, and the architecture is designed to carry the script through to the printed label and the exported PDF — the part bolt-on translation skips.
- Kannada, Tamil and English interfaces ship today
- Designed for script-aware labels and PDFs, not just screen text
- Self-hosted fonts — no external calls for glyphs
- A further language is a catalogue and a font, not a rewrite
Built for regulated data
Designed around the obligations biobanks actually carry, with the audit evidence a biobank quality system relies on. Specibo holds no certification or accreditation.
- Designed around India’s DPDPA and comparable health-data regimes
- Tamper-evident, hash-chained audit trail — verify it yourself
- Role-based access; consent tracked end to end
- Data residency you choose, including air-gapped
See it with your own protocols
The most useful demo is one that follows a collection protocol you actually run. Tell us how your biobank works and we will walk through it.
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