Google making inroads with Genomics database

Last March, Google announced that it had developed a database and associated ways for accessing the data it stored, geared towards storing human genome information—named quite naturally, Google Genomics. Since that time, the company has been actively pursuing hospital and university data, so as to have as much genome data stored as possible. The overall objective, the company says is to provide a service to researchers studying genomes as a means of curing diseases, primarily cancer.

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