Lea K. Data Analyst UKB Community team

Integrating External Data Sources with UK Biobank on the RAP

The UK Biobank Research Analysis Platform (UKB-RAP) gives researchers restricted, cloud-based access to one of the world’s largest and most detailed health datasets. It includes information from ov...

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• Updated 08 May 2026 08:22
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Hi Thomas,Thanks for sharing your method, this is correct. One potential alternative could be to utilise the Swiss Army Knife in order to run a pre-defined script/function on the input data without...

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• 13 October 2025 11:27
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Hi Shuangshuanag,You can access and manage files in your project by navigating through your folders using the DNAnexus tab in JupyterLab. This allows you to view and interact with your project file...

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• 10 July 2025 10:34
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Hi Meghana,SAS is not available on the UKB-RAP,  but we are considering supporting it in the future.Thank you for using the Community forum.

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• 16 June 2025 11:00
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Hi Ian,That's the correct structure. However, please note that the base positions in the genotyping data are in GRCh37 coordinates so the start and end variant positions will be different. Hope thi...

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• 13 May 2025 13:48
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Hi Jan,Thank you for using the Community forum. No, you do need UK Biobank RAP credentials to use the app. 

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• 08 May 2025 10:34
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Hi Ian,Thank you for reaching out. We are working on enhancing the documentation and tool for filtering SNPs in the genotyping data.  If you want to filter the data based on the genomic positions t...

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• 07 May 2025 09:23
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Hi Murad,Thank you for reaching out. You might find the xargs argument useful to execute jobs in parallel. For example:cat <list_of_files>.txt | xargs -I {} dx run <app> -iinput_file={} --destinati...

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• 04 April 2025 14:10
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Hi Maria,Sorry for the delayed response. When trying to merge the diagnoses from field 41280, the order matches the order of the piped 41270 field. The data in the hesin_diag table follows a differ...

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• 31 March 2025 15:43
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