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A curated list of UK Biobank related resources

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Official quicklinksGWAS summary data / other resourcesPerform phenome-wide association studiesDerivation of variablesGeneticsImaging phenotypesData processingMisc

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Imaging phenotypes

  • AAC_scoringAbdominal MRI

    Map DEXA images from UK Biobank dataset to abdominal aortic calcification scores

  • adni_phenotypesBrain MRI

    Identifying healthy individuals with Alzheimer neuroimaging phenotypes in the UK Biobank

  • brain-ageBrain MRI

    Pretrained neural networks for brain age prediction in UK Biobank from MRI images

  • brain-sexBrain MRI

    Predict participant sex from brain MRI images

  • cardiac-fractalsCardiac MRI

    Artificial intelligence derived fractal structure of the heart

  • CardioRadiomicsCardiac MRI

    Radiomics signatures of cardiovascular risk factors from cardiac MRI

Derivation of variables

  • axivity-ax3-toolAccelerometer

    Command line tool for easily extracting light and temperature data from Axivity AX3 accelerometers used in the UK Biobank

  • biobankAccelerometerAnalysisAccelerometer

    A tool to extract meaningful health information from large accelerometer datasets

  • BiobankActivityCSFAccelerometer

    Process the accelerometer CWA files from the UK Biobank activity monitoring study in Python

  • CAHDbyECGClinical and biochemical

    Predict coronary atherosclerotic heart disease from electrocardiogram

  • NeuralCVDClinical and biochemical

    Contains code to preprocess UK Biobank data and train the NeuralCVD score (neural network-based integration of polygenic and clinical information of a prediction model for 10 year risk of major adverse cardiac events)

  • phemapElectronic health records

    Functions to map between ICD-10 terms and PheCodes for UK Biobank hospital electronic health records

Misc

  • BBS

    Simulation software for generating phenotypes from UK Biobank data

  • Big-Data-Variable-Selector-Tool

    A tool to automate variable selection for research on large datasets. The provided example is on the variable dictionary of the UK Biobank Dataset

  • biobank-read

    BiobankRead aims to provide Python-based tools for the extraction, cleaning and pre-processing of UK Biobank data

  • docker-ukbiobank-utils

    Docker versions of the utilities provided by UK Biobank

  • tofu

    Tofu is a Python library for generating synthetic UK Biobank data

  • ukb-fields

    UK Biobank utilities for identifying fields and relevant metadata using Python

Genetics

  • bgex

    BGEN extraction tool (UK Biobank)

  • cnv-ukb

    Contains scripts used to call CNVs using UK Biobank data

  • ddpop

    Detect large DNA duplications/deletions in UK Biobank Affymetrix Axiom array data

  • DNANexus_GRS

    An R Function for calculating genetic risk scores in the UK Biobank cohort using DNA Nexus

  • favorannotator-rap

    An app for automatically functionally annotating the variants using FAVORannotator in UK Biobank RAP

  • finemap-uk-biobank

    Code & scripts implementing genetic association and fine-mapping analyses of UK Biobank data

Data processing

  • BiobankRead-Bash

    Python scripts to extract and pre-process UK Biobank data

  • bulk-ukb

    Download UK Biobank bulk data

  • precimed-ukb

    Helper tools to process UK Biobank data

  • Rdna-nexus

    Functions to analyse UK Biobank genetic data directly from DNA Nexus' RStudio Workbench

  • R-ukbiobank

    Contains a collection of functions that facilitate the extraction of phenotypes from UK Biobank data

  • UKBBcleanR

    Prepare electronic medical record data from the UK Biobank for time-to-event analyses

Perform phenome-wide association studies

  • createUKBphenome

    Create a PheWAS code based phenome using ICD9 and ICD10 data from baskets of the UK Biobank

  • PHESANT

    PHEnome Scan ANalysis Tool (pheWAS, Mendelian randomisation (MR)-pheWAS etc) in UK Biobank

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