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  • About the Research Analysis Platform
    • About this documentation
    • Frequently asked questions
      • General FAQs
      • 500k WGS FAQs
  • Getting Started
    • Quickstart
      • Creating an account
      • Creating a project
    • Key concepts
    • Data structure
      • Data release versions
      • Updating dispensed data
    • Training videos
      • General
      • Tools
      • Analysis & data types
      • Roundtables
  • Administrator
    • Costs and Billing
    • Managing usage and storage costs
    • Contact support
      • Service packages
  • Working on the Research Analysis Platform
    • Accessing data
      • Accessing phenotype data
      • Accessing bulk data
    • Running analysis jobs
      • Tools library
      • RStudio
      • JupyterLab
      • SAIGE
      • Command-Line Interface
      • Custom app
    • Managing jobs
      • Job Priority
      • Troubleshooting guide
    • Tips & tricks
      • Guide to analyzing large sample sets
    • Returning pVCF Files to UK Biobank
  • Science Corner
    • About the science corner
    • End-to-end target discovery with GWAS and PheWAS
    • Whole Exome Sequencing OQFE Protocol
      • Protocol for Processing UKB Whole Exome Sequencing Data Sets
      • Generation and Utilization of Quality Control Set 90pct10dp on OQFE Data
        • Details on Processing Whole Exome Datasets to Generate the Quality Control Set
    • Burden testing with WES
    • GWAS guide using Alzheimer's disease
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What is UK Biobank?

UK Biobank is a national and international health resource with unparalleled research opportunities, open to all bona fide health researchers. UK Biobank aims to improve the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of a wide range of serious and life-threatening illnesses – including cancer, heart diseases, stroke, diabetes, arthritis, osteoporosis, eye disorders, depression and forms of dementia. It is following the health and well-being of 500,000 volunteer participants and provides health information, which does not identify them, to approved researchers in the UK and overseas, from academia and industry.

The UK Biobank Research Analysis Platform

The UK Biobank Research Analysis Platform is an informatics platform that provides access to, and analysis of, UK Biobank data by its registered researcher community.

, including details on applying for access.

Read the announcement.
See the DNAnexus website for more information on the Research Analysis Platform