Google Involvement in Genetics

How, where and why Alphabet and google get involved, invest, collaborate with genetic programs.

Google Genomics

Google Wants to Store Your Genome. For $25 a year, Google will keep a copy of any genome in the cloud

Source : MIT Tech Review, by Antonio Regalado November 6, 2014

Google genomic code repository in github : https://github.com/googlegenomics

In terms of providing cloud bioinformatics infrastructure, the two more direct competitors are DNANexus [1] and Seven Bridges Genomics[2].

Integrative Genomics Viewer (IGV)

IGV Desktop supports browsing of reads from the Google Genomics Reads API and also from BAM files in Google Cloud Storage. It implements an OAuth flow to facilitate access to private data in addition to public data.

Documentation : https://googlegenomics.readthedocs.io/en/latest/use_cases/browse_genomic_data/igv.html

Google and 23andMe

"Home DNA test results from the 5 million customers of 23andMe will now be used by drug giant GlaxoSmithKline to design new drugs, the two companies announce." source nbc news, by Maggie Fox / Jul.25.2018

"The company was founded by Linda Avey, Paul Cusenza and Anne Wojcicki in 2006 to provide genetic testing and interpretation to individual consumers. In 2007, Google invested $3,900,000 in the company, along with Genentech, New Enterprise Associates, and Mohr Davidow Ventures. Wojcicki was married to Google co-founder Sergey Brin at the time."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/23andMe

Alphabet, google invests

DeepMind Technologies Limited is a British artificial intelligence company founded in September 2010. The company is based in London, but has research centres in California and Canada.

Acquired by Google in 2014, the company has created a neural network that learns how to play video games in a fashion similar to that of humans,[5] as well as a Neural Turing machine, or a neural network that may be able to access an external memory like a conventional Turing machine, resulting in a computer that mimics the short-term memory of the human brain.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeepMind

Google talk and interest in genetic

Mars 2015

Google Ventures and the Search for Immortality Bill Maris has $425 million to invest this year, and the freedom to invest it however he wants. He's looking for companies that will slow aging, reverse disease, and extend life.

Source Bloomberg.com, By Katrina Brooker

August 2011

The Cognitive Genomics Lab at BGI is using this talk to kick off the drive for US participants in our intelligence GWAS. More information at www.cog-genomics.org, including automatic qualifying standards for the study, which are set just above +3 SD. Participants received free genotyping and help with interpreting the results. (The functional part of the site should be live after August 18.)

Investigating the genetic basis for intelligence - Steve Hsu - University of Oregon and BGI slides