Research outputs
2025
Mobilising UK Data and AI for All with a National Grid of Civic Learning Systems
Buchan, I., Ainsworth, J., Angione, C., Ardern, K., Atkinson, K., Ball, S., . . . Zhang, X. (2025). Mobilising UK Data and AI for All with a National Grid of Civic Learning Systems (2025/03). https://www.thenhsa.co.uk/about/publications/: Northern Health Science Alliance. Retrieved from https://www.thenhsa.co.uk/
2024
DataSHIELD: mitigating disclosure risk in a multi-site federated analysis platform
Avraam, D., Wilson, R. C., Aguirre Chan, N., Banerjee, S., Bishop, T. R. P., Butters, O., . . . Burton, P. (2024). DataSHIELD: mitigating disclosure risk in a multi-site federated analysis platform. Bioinformatics Advances, 5(1). doi:10.1093/bioadv/vbaf046
MOLGENIS Armadillo: a lightweight server for federated analysis using DataSHIELD.
Cadman, T., Slofstra, M. K., van der Geest, M. A., Avraam, D., Bishop, T. R. P., de Boer, T., . . . Swertz, M. (2024). MOLGENIS Armadillo: a lightweight server for federated analysis using DataSHIELD.. Bioinformatics (Oxford, England), 41(1), btae726. doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btae726
Federated privacy-protected meta- and mega-omics data analysis in multi-center studies with a fully open-source analytic platform
Escriba-Montagut, X., Marcon, Y., Anguita-Ruiz, A., Avraam, D., Urquiza, J., Morgan, A. S., . . . Gonzalez, J. R. (2024). Federated privacy-protected meta- and mega-omics data analysis in multi-center studies with a fully open-source analytic platform. PLOS COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY, 20(12). doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1012626
MOLGENIS Armadillo: a lightweight server for federated analysis using DataSHIELD
Green spaces and respiratory, cardiometabolic, and neurodevelopmental outcomes: An individual-participant data meta-analysis of > 35.000 European children
Fernandes, A., Avraam, D., Cadman, T., Dadvand, P., Guxens, M., Binter, A. -C., . . . Vrijheid, M. (2024). Green spaces and respiratory, cardiometabolic, and neurodevelopmental outcomes: An individual-participant data meta-analysis of > 35.000 European children. ENVIRONMENT INTERNATIONAL, 190. doi:10.1016/j.envint.2024.108853
Reconciling the biomedical data commons and the GDPR: three lessons from the EUCAN ELSI collaboratory
Bernier, A., Molnar-Gabor, F., Knoppers, B. M., Borry, P., Cesar, P. M. D. G., Devriendt, T., . . . Maxwell, L. (2024). Reconciling the biomedical data commons and the GDPR: three lessons from the EUCAN ELSI collaboratory. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF HUMAN GENETICS, 32(1), 69-76. doi:10.1038/s41431-023-01403-y
2023
Adjusting expected deaths for mortality displacement during the COVID-19 pandemic: a model based counterfactual approach at the level of individuals.
Holleyman, R. J., Barnard, S., Bauer-Staeb, C., Hughes, A., Dunn, S., Fox, S., . . . Burton, P. (2023). Adjusting expected deaths for mortality displacement during the COVID-19 pandemic: a model based counterfactual approach at the level of individuals.. BMC medical research methodology, 23(1), 241. doi:10.1186/s12874-023-01984-8
Correction: Gestational age at birth and body size from infancy through adolescence: An individual participant data meta-analysis on 253,810 singletons in 16 birth cohort studies.
Vinther, J. L., Cadman, T., Avraam, D., Ekstrøm, C. T., Sørensen, T. I. A., Elhakeem, A., . . . Nybo Andersen, A. -M. (2023). Correction: Gestational age at birth and body size from infancy through adolescence: An individual participant data meta-analysis on 253,810 singletons in 16 birth cohort studies.. PLoS medicine, 20(4), e1004232. doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.1004232
Gestational age at birth and body size from infancy through adolescence: An individual participant data meta-analysis on 253,810 singletons in 16 birth cohort studies.
Vinther, J. L., Cadman, T., Avraam, D., Ekstrøm, C. T., I A Sørensen, T., Elhakeem, A., . . . Nybo Andersen, A. -M. (2023). Gestational age at birth and body size from infancy through adolescence: An individual participant data meta-analysis on 253,810 singletons in 16 birth cohort studies.. PLoS medicine, 20(1), e1004036. doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.1004036
Visualisation and Exploration of Linked Data Using Virtual Reality - a preview of Graph2VR
Kellmann, A., Postema, M., de Keijser, J., Svetachov, P., Wilson, B., van Enckevort, E., & Swertz, M. A. (2023). Visualisation and Exploration of Linked Data Using Virtual Reality - a preview of Graph2VR. In Ceur Workshop Proceedings Vol. 3415 (pp. 153-154).
Visualization and exploration of linked data using virtual reality
Kellmann, A. J., Postema, M., de Keijser, J., Svetachov, P., Wilson, R. C., van Enckevort, E. J., & Swertz, M. A. (2024). Visualization and exploration of linked data using virtual reality. DATABASE-THE JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL DATABASES AND CURATION, 2024. doi:10.1093/database/baae008
2022
Life course of retrospective harmonization initiatives: key elements to consider.
Fortier, I., Wey, T. W., Bergeron, J., Pinot de Moira, A., Nybo-Andersen, A. -M., Bishop, T., . . . Burton, P. (2022). Life course of retrospective harmonization initiatives: key elements to consider.. Journal of developmental origins of health and disease, 1-9. doi:10.1017/s2040174422000460
2021
Privacy preserving data visualizations
Avraam, D., Wilson, R., Butters, O., Burton, T., Nicolaides, C., Jones, E., . . . Burton, P. (2021). Privacy preserving data visualizations. EPJ DATA SCIENCE, 10(1). doi:10.1140/epjds/s13688-020-00257-4
Advancing tools for human early lifecourse exposome research and translation (ATHLETE)
Vrijheid, M., Basagana, X., Gonzalez, J. R., Jaddoe, V. W. V., Jensen, G., Keun, H. C., . . . Slama, R. (2021). Advancing tools for human early lifecourse exposome research and translation (ATHLETE). ENVIRONMENTAL EPIDEMIOLOGY, 5(5). doi:10.1097/EE9.0000000000000166
PUblications Metadata Augmentation (PUMA) pipeline.
Butters, O. W., Wilson, R. C., Garner, H., & Burton, T. W. Y. (2020). PUblications Metadata Augmentation (PUMA) pipeline.. F1000Research, 9, 1095. doi:10.12688/f1000research.25484.2
2020
PUblications Metadata Augmentation (PUMA) pipeline
Butters, O. W., Wilson, R. C., Garner, H., & Burton, T. W. Y. (2020). PUblications Metadata Augmentation (PUMA) pipeline. F1000Research, 9. doi:10.12688/f1000research.25484.1
Recognizing, reporting and reducing the data curation debt of cohort studies
Butters, O. W., Wilson, R. C., & Burton, P. R. (2020). Recognizing, reporting and reducing the data curation debt of cohort studies. International Journal of Epidemiology. doi:10.1093/ije/dyaa087
2019
Associations between maternal physical activity in early and late pregnancy and offspring birth size: remote federated individual level meta-analysis from eight cohort studies
Pastorino, S., Bishop, T., Crozier, S. R., Granstrom, C., Kordas, K., Kupers, L. K., . . . Ong, K. K. (2019). Associations between maternal physical activity in early and late pregnancy and offspring birth size: remote federated individual level meta-analysis from eight cohort studies. BJOG-AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF OBSTETRICS AND GYNAECOLOGY, 126(4), 459-470. doi:10.1111/1471-0528.15476
2018
Generation of a cleaned dataset listing Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents And Children peer-reviewed publications to 2015.
Butters, O., Ismail, A., Thompson, S., & Wilson, R. (2018). Generation of a cleaned dataset listing Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents And Children peer-reviewed publications to 2015.. Wellcome open research, 3, 161. doi:10.12688/wellcomeopenres.14986.1
2017
DataSHIELD – New Directions and Dimensions
Wilson, R. C., Butters, O. W., Avraam, D., Baker, J., Tedds, J. A., Turner, A., . . . Burton, P. R. (2017). DataSHIELD – New Directions and Dimensions. Data Science Journal, 16. doi:10.5334/dsj-2017-021
Disseminating findings from the Data Analysis with Privacy Protection for Epidemiological Research (DAPPER) workshop
Wilson, R., Burton, P., Asher, I., Carter, K., Castelli, A., Cumin, D., . . . White, E. (2017). Disseminating findings from the Data Analysis with Privacy Protection for Epidemiological Research (DAPPER) workshop. International Journal of Population Data Science, 1(1). doi:10.23889/ijpds.v1i1.301
Privacy protected graphical functionality in DataSHIELD
Avraam, D., Gaye, A., Isaeva, J., Burton, T., Wilson, R., Turner, A., & Burton, P. (n.d.). Privacy protected graphical functionality in DataSHIELD. International journal of population data science, 1(1).
Privacy protected text analysis in DataSHIELD
Wilson, R., Butters, O., Avraam, D., Turner, A., & Burton, P. (n.d.). Privacy protected text analysis in DataSHIELD. International journal of population data science, 1(1).
The ECOUTER methodology for stakeholder engagement in translational research
Murtagh, M. J., Minion, J. T., Turner, A., Wilson, R. C., Blell, M., Ochieng, C., . . . Burton, P. R. (2017). The ECOUTER methodology for stakeholder engagement in translational research. BMC MEDICAL ETHICS, 18. doi:10.1186/s12910-017-0167-z
Digital Methodology to implement the ECOUTER engagement process
Wilson, R. C., Butters, O. W., Clark, T., Minion, J., Turner, A., & Murtagh, M. J. (2017). Digital Methodology to implement the ECOUTER engagement process. F1000Research, 5, 1307. doi:10.12688/f1000research.8786.2
Synthetic ALSPAC longitudinal datasets for the Big Data VR project.
Avraam, D., Wilson, R. C., & Burton, P. (2017). Synthetic ALSPAC longitudinal datasets for the Big Data VR project.. Wellcome open research, 2, 74. doi:10.12688/wellcomeopenres.12441.1
2016
Digital Methodology to implement the ECOUTER engagement process.
Wilson, R. C., Butters, O. W., Clark, T., Minion, J., Turner, A., & Murtagh, M. J. (2016). Digital Methodology to implement the ECOUTER engagement process.. F1000Research, 5, 1307. doi:10.12688/f1000research.8786.2
The Biomedical Research Infrastructure Software as a Service Kit (BRISSKit): technical description
Butters, O., Issa, S., Lusted, J., Newbury, M., Parsloe, R., Holden, N., . . . Tedds, J. (2016). The Biomedical Research Infrastructure Software as a Service Kit (BRISSKit): technical description. doi:10.12688/f1000research.8736.1
2014
DataSHIELD: taking the analysis to the data, not the data to the analysis
Gaye, A., Marcon, Y., Isaeva, J., LaFlamme, P., Turner, A., Jones, E. M., . . . Burton, P. R. (2014). DataSHIELD: taking the analysis to the data, not the data to the analysis. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF EPIDEMIOLOGY, 43(6), 1929-1944. doi:10.1093/ije/dyu188
2012
Have primary emission reduction measures reduced ozone across Europe? An analysis of European rural background ozone trends 1996-2005
Wilson, R. C., Fleming, Z. L., Monks, P. S., Clain, G., Henne, S., Konovalov, I. B., . . . Menut, L. (2012). Have primary emission reduction measures reduced ozone across Europe? An analysis of European rural background ozone trends 1996-2005. ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY AND PHYSICS, 12(1), 437-454. doi:10.5194/acp-12-437-2012