The journey to establishing an IT-infrastructure within the German Biobank Alliance

• Christina Schüttler ,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: christina.schuettler@fau.de

  Affiliation Medical Informatics, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9008-1868

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• Hans-Ulrich Prokosch,

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Medical Informatics, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany

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• Michael Hummel,

  Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation German Biobank Node, Charité –Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany

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• Martin Lablans,

  Roles Conceptualization

  Affiliations Federated Information Systems, German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany, University Medical Center Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany

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• Björn Kroll ,

  Roles Software, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors are joint senior authors on this work.

  Affiliation IT Center for Clinical Research, University of Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany

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• Cäcilia Engels ,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors are joint senior authors on this work.

  Affiliation German Biobank Node, Charité –Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany

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• on behalf of the German Biobank Alliance IT development team

  ¶Membership of the German Biobank Alliance IT development team is provided in the Acknowledgments.

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