Your DNA will Store on Cloude

For $25 a year, Google will keep a copy of any genome in the cloud.

















Campaign to have your DNA stored on Cloud. Google Genomics started around eighteen months ago, consulting scientists and working towards engineering an API that allows genetic data to be moved onto servers. It would enable an index to track billions of users in the name of science and medical breakthroughs via DNA.A recent column published by an MIT analyst outlines how Google wants to store your genome, and millions of others, on the cloud. The column claims that allowing the government and companies like Google, Microsoft, Amazon and IBM to hold onto your genome will help facilitate medical discoveries and improve diagnostics as well.According to the MIT report, Google started working on the Google Genomics program 18 months ago and is already making progress.For around $25, the search engine giant will store your genome in it’s cloud service that also powers Search, Maps, YouTube, Gmail and Drive.“We saw biologists moving from studying one genome at a time to studying millions. The opportunity is how to apply breakthroughs in data technology to help with this transition,” says David Glazer, a Google software engineer.The Wall Street Journal reported midyear that a patient’s genetic code would be less than a gigabyte and ‘economical’ to store on the Cloud platform. If a concept such as DNA storage is utilized, then large volumes of data can be collated onto servers, giving remote access to researchers. The argument presented with such a massive data intake of a person’s ‘blueprint’ would benefit the medical world. The mass storage of people’s genomes could be analyzed by hospitals and universities to get better insight into diseases such as cancer; aiding in the more suitable treatment for a person, down to a potential cure.