Working with Lifelines
Lifelines provides researchers with many possibilities to conduct groundbreaking research. Using Lifelines for your project helps save time and effort, as data and biosamples have already been collected and made available for use. Furthermore, you can make use of our research environments to conduct your analyses. Below we specify different steps which need to be taken for working with Lifelines.
Step 1: Prepare and submit your application
Download your personal application form and apply for data, biosamples, linkage of Lifelines data to other data sources, and/or your own additional Lifelines study. Continue for more information and applying!
Step 2: Review of your application
After you have submitted your application in step 1, Lifelines will review your application and provide you with our review comments within three weeks. On this page, you can read more about the review process.
Step 3: Contracts, offer, and other requirements
Once you reach this step, your application is approved! Now, you are one hurdle away from receiving access to your requested Lifelines data. Continue to read more about the necessary contracts, the initial offer, and other obligations.
Step 4: Working on your project
Congratulations on getting access to your Lifelines data or biosamples! We hope it will be an rewarding experience just like many researchers had before you. We are well aware that the size and complexity of the (meta)dataset and associated information may be overwhelming, and that navigation can be daunting at first. On this page we provide you with tips, tricks and instructions that you might find useful when working with the Lifelines data.
Step 5: Closing your project
As Lifelines, we archive your data, the associated scripts/syntaxes and any other documentation for at least 10 years. However, we do not have access to all locations of your research environment. As a result, we need your help for a proper closure of your Lifelines project. We are aware that many researchers need to access their Lifelines project after it is closed, most often for manuscript revisions requested by reviewers. On this page, we provide you with more details on these topics.