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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.

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BioMS Overview

AFT BioMS Training / Open Forum

AFT BioMS User Manual

AFT Correlative Science Manuals

AFT Direction for Use documents

AFT BioMS Contingency Plan

AFT Specimen Receipt Values
FAQs

BioMS Quick Reference

Forms

Holiday Shipping Schedule

Milestones

Date	Release Version	Comments

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	AFT BioMS v2.0	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	AFT BioMS v2.5	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.