A British database containing what has been described as the world's most complete human biological data set. It holds records for roughly 500,000 people and includes medical histories, medical images and genome sequences. It uses ICD-10 codes—the international medical shorthand for officially recognised diagnoses—to register health events.
The Biobank has served as a training ground for medical AI models. Delphi-2M, a predictive health model developed by the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in Cambridge and the German Cancer Research Centre in Heidelberg, was trained on data from 400,000 Biobank participants to forecast which of more than 1,000 conditions a person might develop next. It was validated on the remaining 100,000 Biobank participants before being tested on Danish health records covering 1.9m people going back to 1978.
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