UK Biobank Material Transfer Agreement (data only)
Access for an approved health-related research project in the public interest, open to academic and commercial applicants, after paying access charges and signing the MTA. Data are analysed on the UK Biobank Research Analysis Platform and may not be passed on. Results data, including trained model parameters, must be returned to UK Biobank, manuscripts must be sent two weeks before publication, and data must be destroyed when the project ends.
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What you can do
- Conditional
- Conditional
- Yes
- Conditional
What you can share
- No
- Conditional
- Conditional
What you must do
- Yes
- No
- Yes
- Conditional
- Yes
- Conditional
- Yes
- Yes
Limits
- Yes
- Conditional
Separate commercial license: Not stated Commercial organisations use the same application, fee and MTA; no separate commercial license is described.
Datasets under this license
- UK Biobank Imaging
Brain, heart and abdominal MRI, whole-body DXA and carotid ultrasound of over 100,000 UK Biobank participants aged about 44 to 87 at imaging, with repeat scans for a subset, linked to genetics and health records. Access by application and fee.