News:Google Joins The Global Alliance For Genomics And Health

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[Pierre Lindenbaum]

Google joins the Global Alliance for Genomics and Health. Learn more at http://t.co/V5MY2mK5ec

— Google AI (@GoogleAI) February 27, 2014

http://googleresearch.blogspot.fr/2014/02/google-joins-global-alliance-for.html

To contribute to the genomics community and help meet the data-intensive needs of the life sciences, we are introducing:

• a proposal for a simple web-based API to import, process, store, and search genomic data at scale
• a preview implementation of the API built on Google’s cloud infrastructure, including sample data from public datasets like the 1,000 Genomes Project
• a collection of in-progress open-source sample projects built around the common API

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[DG]

This looks very interesting. I knew google was looking to get involved in genomics/bioinformatics in a big way, this certainly shows it.