Future data release timelines
Provisional timeline for future data releases
The tables below gives details of upcoming data releases and estimated dates for when each release will take place. Please note: data is only accessible through our Research Analysis Platform.
| Type of data | About | Approximate release date |
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Whole Genome Sequencing DRAGEN Release |
Release of ML-corrected DRAGEN population level WGS data in pVCF, PLINK2 and BGEN formats, available in Category 185. |
Q1 2025 |
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FMRIB 2024 IDP update |
Cortical surface-based derivations of the brain imaging data; additional derivations are also being provided for fields in Category 100. |
Q1 2025 |
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Carotid Ultrasound .cine file conversion |
Carotid ultrasound images currently available in Field 20241 are being transformed into a more accessible format. These data will be available for approximately 80,000 participants. |
Q1 2025 |
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Sleep questionnaire |
Data from the Sleep Questionnaire, exploring sleep behaviour, patterns and quality, as well as contributing factors and consequences of poor sleep. |
Q1 2025 |
|
Invitations to enhancements |
Dates of invitations to online questionnaires including mental health, food preferences, experience of pain, work environment and digestive health, and data on participants' responses to invitations to the first repeat assessment visit (2012-13). |
Q1 2025 |
|
Death data for England, Scotland and Wales |
Update to the death registry data for England, Scotland and Wales. |
Q1 2025 |
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PRS score update 2024 |
Version 2 of the dataset, encompassing polygenic risk scores for 28 diseases and 25 quantitative traits. |
Q1 2025 |
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Update to small-area fields (location at assessment) |
Update to fields relating to participants' residential location at the time of assessment, to standardise the methodology used to generate the geocoding, add additional location data for recent assessments, and add census area data for non-baseline assessments. |
Q1 2025 |
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Integrated herpesviruses |
Data on inherited chromosomally-integrated human herpes virus-6 (HHV-6) available for all 500,000 participants |
Q1 2025 |
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Calico 2024 IDP update |
Update to fields in Category 158. |
Q1 2025 |
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Residential location data: Address history |
We plan to improve the residential location data available in Category 150, as well as bring it up to date. |
Q1 2025 |
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Olink batch 7 & 8 data |
Additional Olink assay data for 2,000 participants with samples taken pre- and post-COVID at UK Biobank imaging visits, plus controls. |
2025 |
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Cancer data (Wales, 2017 onwards) |
An update to Welsh cancer data to include missing data from 2017 onwards. |
2025 |
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