Global Biobank Engine: enabling genotype-phenotype browsing for biobank summary statistics.

ABSTRACT: SUMMARY:Large biobanks linking phenotype to genotype have led to an explosion of genetic association studies across a wide range of phenotypes. Sharing the knowledge generated by these resources with the scientific community remains a challenge due to patient privacy and the vast amount of data. Here, we present Global Biobank Engine (GBE), a web-based tool that enables exploration of the relationship between genotype and phenotype in biobank cohorts, such as the UK Biobank. GBE supports browsing for results from genome-wide association studies, phenome-wide association studies, gene-based tests and genetic correlation between phenotypes. We envision GBE as a platform that facilitates the dissemination of summary statistics from biobanks to the scientific and clinical communities. AVAILABILITY AND IMPLEMENTATION:GBE currently hosts data from the UK Biobank and can be found freely available at biobankengine.stanford.edu.

SUBMITTER: McInnes G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6612820 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature