Google actively promotes Google Drive for Geneticists

Google Corporation offers research laboratories at universities and hospitals, and all research organizations to store information of a genetic nature in the cloud. In this case, the cloud storage itself, Google Genomics , was created in March of this year. Nevertheless, a large number of announcements of other services and projects pushed Google Genomics into the background.

The goal of the system, according to the authors of Google Genomics, is an "interactive study of genetic variations." This means the ability to access information on millions of genomes for thousands of researchers.
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Now deciphering the human genotype takes several hours, and the amount of information after decryption is about 100 GB. The cost of storing such a data set in Google Genomics is $ 25 per year, and something else needs to be paid for analyzing these results. But after the original data is cleared, the decryption is already only 1GB. And the storage of such a volume will cost 0.25 cents per year.



According to David Glazer, the head of the project, the corporation is trying to do everything possible to work with the data as simple and efficient as possible. Now it is very important to get the opportunity to analyze not specifically taken genotype, but to compare the genotypes of different people for different purposes (determining the nature of the disease, identifying DNA segments responsible for the features of the physical appearance or body, etc.).

Using Google Genomics, researchers can compare millions of decoded genomes, obtaining the most interesting information as a result.

Now the largest client of the service is the National Cancer Institute. This organization pays $ 19 million a year for storing 2.6 petabytes of data ( Cancer Genome Atlas ).

In addition, at least the data on 3,500 genomes are stored in Google Genomics, this information has been downloaded by representatives of various public projects.

Via theverge