AFT BioMS Home
To request a kit, please login to the AFT BioMS application using your credentials and select "Kit Request". For study procedure related assistance, please email the Alliance Foundation Biorepository at afbhelp@email.wustl.edu or call the AFB Program Manager at 314-747-4402. For Help with AFT BioMS, please call toll free number, 1-855-642-4667 OR email the AFT BioMS Help Desk Team at aftbiomshelp@email.wustl.edu
IMPORTANT: The email address for the Alliance Foundation Biorepository is afbhelp@email.wustl.edu and for the AFT BioMS Help Desk is aftbiomshelp@email.wustl.edu
The Alliance Foundation Trial (AFT) Biospecimen Management System (BioMS) is a web-based application that has been designed to support biospecimen tracking, inventory management, and reporting for all Industry sponsored clinical trials and companion correlative science studies. Alliance Foundation Trials, LLC (AFT) is a research organization that develops and conducts cancer clinical trials, working closely with pharmaceutical partners, research collaborators and the Alliance for Clinical Trials in Oncology member network. AFT seeks to fulfill the vision of the Alliance for Clinical Trials in Oncology to reduce the impact of cancer on people by uniting a broad community of scientists and clinicians from many disciplines, committed to discovering, validating and disseminating effective strategies for the prevention and treatment of cancer. AFT is funded wholly by private entities and does not use any public funding resources. |
AFT BioMS Production Application Link (Users must login Using AFT Portal)
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Milestones
Date | Release Version | Comments |
|---|---|---|
Aug 31, 2015 | AFT BioMS v1.0 | Initial version |
Jan 26, 2016 | AFT BioMS v1.1 | IRT Integration |
Apr 14, 2016 | AFT BioMS v1.2 | CTMS Integration |
Apr 28, 2016 | Kit Management | |
Oct 20, 2016 | AFT BioMS v2.0.1 | Bug fixes |
Jan 24, 2017 | AFT BioMS v2.2 | Oracle version upgrade and improved kit management functionality |
Mar 30, 2017 | AFT BioMS v2.3 | Corrected contact email address issue and resolved record duplication issue. |
Sep 21, 2017 | AFT BioMS v2.4 | New specimen types Tissue Lysate and Cell Lysate are now available to use. |
Dec 14, 2017 | Improved biospecimen receipt annotation and improved kit management process. | |
Mar 2, 2018 | AFT BioMS v2.5.1 | Improved Shipment page performance and also completed infrastructure transition. |
May 8, 2018 | AFT BioMS v2.5.2 | Implemented new web service for integrating user data from CTMS |
May 31, 2018 | AFT BioMS v2.5.3 | Added two new specimen quality values for handling delayed specimen shipments. |
Oct 7, 2018 | AFT BioMS v2.5.4 | Changed the email server and modified a Quartz job scheduler configuration. |
Dec 1, 2018 | AFT BioMS v2.5.5 | Implemented Reporting Function. |
Dec 7, 2018 | AFT BioMS v2.5.6 | Added a new value for the received specimen quality. "Unacceptable - Incorrect Specimen" |
Jan 17, 2019 | AFT BioMS v2.5.7 | Added Filters to display kit requests only for an year back history from the current date. |
Feb 25, 2019 | AFT BioMS v2.6 | Revised Shipment Manifest: Bar codes have been added for Specimens on the Shipment Manifest. Shipment Manifests are printed as PDF documents. Specimen Quantity for each specimens has been added to the Shipment Manifest. Shipment ID and page number(s) appears as document footer on all pages of the Shipment Manifest / Associated forms, if any. Specimen Collection Status: Prior to this version, when a Primary biospecimen is collected and there is an alternate biospecimen requirement exists, BioMS system automatically marks the alternate biospecimen status as "Not Collected". Going forward, this has been changed to mark as "Not Applicable". This change has been made effective for all past and future biospecimens. When a user update a biospecimen's status as "Not Collected" using BioMS GUI, BioMS will continue to maintain its status as "Not Collected" |
Jun 19, 2019 | AFT BioMS v2.7 | Added validation on collection dates for Fixed Tissue Block, Fixed Cell Block and Fixed Tissue Slide. Also, added validation for Shipping date to prevent entering a date earlier than any of the specimen collection dates. |
Mar 1, 2020 | AFT BioMS v3.0 | Integrated with the revised and upgraded AFT OpenSpecimen Implemented BSF printing in AFT BioMS |
Apr 20, 2023 | AFT BioMS v4.0 | Added Digital Image and its received quality values. Added functionality to edit shipments to correct or change received quality. |