Enabling secure discovery in trusted research environments with improved tooling

Biobanks are introducing trusted research environments to enable secure data access, yet they can increase costs and complexity for biomedical researchers who use them. We discuss challenges and solutions and introduce the Python Phenofhy community tool for Our Future Health.

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