CASE STUDY Informatics and Chromatography Software Effectively Storing and Analyzing Biological Data at UK Biobank and analysis of samples. In addition to answering a variety of lifestyle and medical questions using automated touch screen technology, participants donated blood, urine, saliva and RNA samples which were processed at a central processing center to yield more than 15 million individual aliquots. All processing and analysis was tracked by Thermo Scientific LIMS. For each aliquot the LIMS records a reference to its parent, its 2-D barcode ID, its rack barcode ID, its position on the rack, the location of the rack in the store and the aliquot contents, among other things. In total, UK Biobank is holding several hundred million data points within the underlying database

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