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UK Biobank

UK Biobank now allows researchers to request genotype data for their studies. Data from the first 150,000 individuals (of 500,000 total) will be released in May, with the rest coming toward the end of the year. The data comes from a 800k Affymetrix Axiom chip, which, unlike the Affy chips of old, produces good quality data. You can also request imputed whole genomes, which will be huge for many kinds of GWAS. You can check to see if they have your SNP of interest here.

NIH Data Science

NIH has launched a new data science site. This new site incorporates the old BD2K ("Big Data to Knowledge") site, which is going away. This seems like a positive indicator for funding opportunities in data science, though I don't see any direct indication of that on this site.

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