DNAnexus, a genomics data management start-up company, has secured
Google Ventures as one of its big backers in a $15 million second round
of financing, and will allow Google to provide web access to genomics
data. The deal will result in a web-based interface for searching and
accessing data in the public Sequence Read Archive (SRA) database.
Google Cloud Storage will host this central repository for the massive
amounts of genomics data, giving investigators access to information
that could impact innovative personalized treatments. The move could
mean a major role for Google in the rapidly developing area of genomics
data.
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