Approved Research

Data standardization and characterization analysis with clinical use cases relating multiple data types and fields

Lay summary

The aim of this project is to convert the format of the UK Biobank data to a commonly used format in order to use preexisting and reproducible methods to understand the dataset. We will than look at key information about the overall data and the population included in order to assess how the data is used and understand clinical factors about the population. With this key information from the converted form we will be able to compare the characteristics of the data to other similar datasets to find any similarities or differences that may exist. We will than look at individual conditions and other clinical characteristics to see how segments of the population compare to other datasets as well as look at how the converted data can be used to see results of clinical events and factors. All of this is done to help understand the data, how it can be used and how methods used on the data can be reused in other contexts for other datasets.