Personal genomics: new concepts for future community data banks

Abstract

INTRODUCTION INTRODUCTION SPLIT GENOMIC DATA TRANSACTIONS BETWEEN COMMUNITY... RESULTS AND DISCUSSION REFERENCES The advent of fast, low-cost sequencing techniques is boosting the number of sequenced human genomes thus driving the irresistible push towards personalized genomics and personalized medicine.1 The examination of the genomes of large cohorts of patients will permit to identify the origins of many diseases and to propose adapted, fine-tuned medical treatments. The genomic boom is also expected to generate an economic activity worth billions of dollars and a fierce race has already started between Internet giants like Google and Amazon. Big data companies have already gathered tens of thousands of individual human genomes hosted in the cloud (that is on a server accessible via the Internet) and th ...