The overall market size was used in the top-down approach to estimate the sizes of other individual submarkets (mentioned in the market segmentation by type, sample type, end user, and region) through percentage splits from secondary and primary research. The bottom-up approach was also implemented (wherever applicable) for data extracted from secondary research to validate the market segment revenues obtained. Various secondary sources such as World Health Organization (WHO), National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), National Institutes of Health (NIH), International Society for Biological and Environmental Repositories (ISBER), Biobanking and Molecular Resource Infrastructure – European Research Infrastructure Consortium (BBMRI-ERIC), Middle Eastern & African Society for Biopreservation and Biobanking (ESBB), Nature (Journal), World Bank, Genome Medicine, International Society of Blood Transfusion (ISBT), Cord Blood Industry Report, American Red Cross (ARC), AABB Publications, and PubMedhave been used to identify and collect information useful for this extensive commercial study of the thawing system market. Primary sources such as experts from related industries and suppliers have been interviewed to obtain and verify critical information as well as to assess prospects of the thawing system market.