Google actively promotes «Google Drive for geneticists'

Google Inc. provides scientific laboratories at universities and hospitals, and all research organizations to store information in the genetic nature of the cloud. It goes cloud storage, Google Genomics , was established in March of this year. However, a large number of announcements of other services and projects Google Genomics pushed into the background.

The purpose of the system, according to the authors of Google Genomics «interactive study of genetic variation." This means you can access information about millions of genomes for thousands of researchers.

Now deciphering the human genotype takes several hours, and the volume of information after decoding - about 100 GB. The cost of maintaining that the array of data in Google Genomics is 25 US dollars per year, and anything else you need to pay for the analysis of these results. But after the initial data will be cleared, decoding takes longer just 1GB. And this volume of storage will cost 0, 25 cents per year.



According to David Glaser (David Glazer), head of the project, the company is trying to do everything possible to work with the data to be as simple and effective. Now it is very important to be able to analyze not specifically taken genotype and compare different genotypes of people with different purposes (to determine the nature of the disease, identification of DNA regions responsible for the appearance or characteristics of the organism, and the like).

Using Google Genomics, researchers can compare millions of decoded genomes interesting insights as a result.

Now the largest customer service is the National Cancer Institute. This organization pays $ 19 million a year for the data storage capacity of 2, 6 petabytes ( Cancer Genome Atlas ).

Furthermore, Google Genomics stored at least data 3500 genomes, this information has been loaded members of various public projects.

Via theverge

Source: geektimes.ru/post/241092/