WASHINGTON: Google is offering £25 per person package to store your genetic information online.
The firm hopes the service will be popular with hospitals, drug firms and researchers will use the service, taking advantage of Google’s vast servers to compare information and find the cause of disease.
‘We saw biologists moving from studying one genome at a time to studying millions,’ David Glazer, the software engineer who led the effort and was previously head of platform engineering for Google+, the social network, said. ‘The opportunity is how to apply breakthroughs in data technology to help with this transition.’ The goal of the system, Google says, is to ‘explore genetic variation interactively.’
