Your Gmail is there, and so are documents that colleagues share with you in Dropbox, not to mention movies that studios send to Netflix. Now the cloud has another inhabitant: the complete DNA data and other molecular and medical information on cancers from 11,000 patients.
Seven Bridges, a biomedical data analysis company in Cambridge, Mass., announced this week that it had put that voluminous data — more than 1 petabyte worth, equivalent to about 1 million hours of streaming video — in the cloud and made it available to any scientist. The 7-year-old startup also said it received $45 million in investor backing to support further development of the company’s genomics research platform.
The rollout of the Seven Bridges tool comes as the White House’s call for a cancer “moonshot” has identified the inaccessibility of important cancer data as one reason the country has not made more progress against the disease, which is expected to kill some 600,000 people in the United States this year.
Read more: Obama wants $1 billion to jumpstart Biden’s cancer ‘moonshot’
The choice of storage site — cloud versus the local supercomputers where cancer DNA data has historically resided — might not seem like a big deal, but it matters far more than whether people keep their personal files in Google Drive or on a home computer.
Read More: https://goo.gl/istfJS
Seven Bridges, a biomedical data analysis company in Cambridge, Mass., announced this week that it had put that voluminous data — more than 1 petabyte worth, equivalent to about 1 million hours of streaming video — in the cloud and made it available to any scientist. The 7-year-old startup also said it received $45 million in investor backing to support further development of the company’s genomics research platform.
The rollout of the Seven Bridges tool comes as the White House’s call for a cancer “moonshot” has identified the inaccessibility of important cancer data as one reason the country has not made more progress against the disease, which is expected to kill some 600,000 people in the United States this year.
Read more: Obama wants $1 billion to jumpstart Biden’s cancer ‘moonshot’
The choice of storage site — cloud versus the local supercomputers where cancer DNA data has historically resided — might not seem like a big deal, but it matters far more than whether people keep their personal files in Google Drive or on a home computer.
Read More: https://goo.gl/istfJS
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