Jonathan Edwards
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It's heartening to me that Jonathan mentions the UK biobank!
If it has not been flagged up before it is worth noting that the ME Biobank has the second largest collection of samples within the UCL Biobank facility. The largest is a general Biobank on an NIHR grant. The ME Biobank is unusual in being NIH funded. But what is clear is that this is no tin pot collection to be gazumped by other people who feel they are more of the in crowd. Our ME Biobank is a seriously impressive resource and we desperately need researchers to tap into it. This is exactly the situation where it should be useful. Someone suggests an important finding and what do you know we have 200 samples sitting waiting ready to confirm it, all properly documented with controls - with the samples having been gathered for reasons completely unrelated to the specific question. The latter is crucial because it makes it impossible for there to be selection bias on samples.