Google has partnered up with Broad Institute to bring a little part of GATK to its Cloud Platform for efficient data analysis.
Latest Google news is regarding the partnership that the company has done. The search engine giant announced that it has come in terms of partnership with Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. This partnership has been done in order to launch the limited part of GATK on the Cloud Platform by the company and then make it available for enterprises as a service.
Genome Analysis Toolkit had been developed by the Broad Institute in order to help the scientists to analyse the sequencing data which is genomic rather quickly. This will now be offered to the academic researchers free of cost. Despite being free, the researchers will be asked to pay for Google Cloud Platform usage. On the other side, the business users will be asked to get license of software from Broad.
This service will made available as part of the Google Genomics which is the tech giant’s platform for cloud computing for the research in life science and also is not much known part of the Google Cloud Platform. The service had been launched back in the start of 2014 but has been quiet around the initiative since being launched. GATK coming Cloud Platform is the very first result of the partnership between the two tech companies.
Google news reports that the sequencing pertaining to DNA generated large amount of data, the genome of a single person’s raw data takes more than 100 gigabytes. And the Broad Institute has been successful in genotyping or sequencing the equivalent of 1.4 million sample, biological ones. There are a lot of resources needed in order to analyse this much amount of data, and that is where the partnership with search engine giant came into being.
Besides the computing platform being offered to the company so they can analyse the data, the tech giant is also noting that GATK provides the researchers with the confidence that they are “processing their data according to the best practices, without worrying about managing IT infrastructure.” It is already being used by a lot of scientist regardless of the partnership. David Glazer expressed that both the companies share the collaborative culture also access to data openly. The Google Genomics is aimed to help the scientists make the information pertaining to genomics rather accessible in easier way and also useful. It is hopeful that great science shall be accelerated by making GATK available via the Cloud Platform by the company.
As far as the access to this toolkit is concerned when it comes to researchers, it means that they won’t be needed to go through the setup on their computers or configuration details which can be time consuming.
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