Using Google Cloud Platform, Autism Speaks is doing research on a database of sequenced genomes.

abernard102@gmail.com 2014-06-15

Summary:

"As part of its Ten Thousand Genomes Program (AUT10K), Autism Speaks has already collected and sequenced 1,000 genomes. But each one is about 100 gigabytes, so the database quickly became unwieldy. It was hard even to get the data to researchers for analysis. But collaborating with Google gives Autism Speaks access to storage, plus the analysis tools already available through Google Cloud Platform ..."

Link:

http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2014/06/13/using_google_cloud_platform_autism_speaks_is_doing_research_on_a_database.html

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Tags:

oa.new oa.comment oa.cloud oa.databases oa.genomics oa.medicine oa.biomedicine oa.aut10k oa.google oa.data

Date tagged:

06/15/2014, 07:49

Date published:

06/15/2014, 03:49