ukbtools: An R package to manage and query UK Biobank data.

Ken B HanscombeJonathan R I ColemanMatthew TraylorCathryn M Lewis

Published in: PloS one (2019)

Having a dataset with meaningful variable names, a set of UKB-specific exploratory data analysis tools, disease query functions, and a set of helper functions to explore and write genetic metadata to file, will rapidly enable UKB users to undertake their research.

Keyphrases

data analysis
regulatory t cells
dendritic cells
genome wide
electronic health record
cross sectional
big data
gene expression
dna methylation
artificial intelligence