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How, where and why Alphabet and google get involved, invest, collaborate with genetic programs.
<blockquote>"''the intimate, inner and profound character - what is inner and secret; the close and profound character (of a bond); the intimacy of a person, his intimate, private life; the pleasure, comfort of a place where one feels completely at home, isolated from the outside world.''" Paul Robert, Le Grand Robert de la Langue Française, 1994</blockquote>
The human genome saved from speculation - By awarding the 2002 Nobel Prize for Medicine to Sydney Brenner, H. Robert Horvitz and John Sulston on December 10 for their discoveries on the genetic regulation of organ development and programmed cell death, the Stockholm Nobel Academy also rewards three of the key players in the formidable scientific endeavour that will lead to the release of the entire human genome sequence into the public domain in 2003. An outcome that was not self-evident, in the face of the appetites aroused by genetic patents." source : https://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/2002/12/SULSTON/9777
Biological monitoring is the means by which biological science is used to track, monitor, analyze and transform bodies into data. It is the extraction of DNA and microbes from the skin, nails, hair and body fluids. It is the analysis of the identifying parts of the body and the individual such as the face, voice, fingerprints and irises. It is the monitoring of life itself by body heat, pulse, sweating, bacterial flora and specific involuntary movement. It is the vulnerability that we are all confronted with every day by the very situation of being human, simply by having a body.
When genetic databases cover 2 percent of the population, nearly anyone can be identified.
<blockquote>"''Even if you’ve never taken a DNA test, a distant relative’s could reveal your identity''" Source : [https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2018/10/11/even-if-youve-never-taken-dna-test-distant-relatives-could-reveal-your-identity/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.c022f1d93857 Whashington Post -Carolyn Y. Johnson , October 11 at 2:00 PM]</blockquote>
== Google Genomics ==
<blockquote>Google Wants to Store Your Genome. For $25 a year, Google will keep a copy of any genome in the cloud</blockquote>
Source : [https://www.technologyreview.com/s/532266/google-wants-to-store-your-genome/ 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 [https://www.dnanexus.com/] and Seven Bridges Genomics[https://www.sevenbridges.com/].
=== 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 ==
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeepMind
== Invests and partnerships ==
=== March 2018 ===
Google partners with Wuxi NextCode to bring genomic sequencing to the cloud.
The partnership includes hosting WuXi NextCODE's core suite of capabilities on Google Cloud and its availability on the Google Cloud Launcher marketplace.
These include GORdb, WuXi NextCODE secondary analysis, the Sequence Miner case-control research application, and the Clinical Sequence Analyzer clinical interpretation system.
Source : https://www.mddionline.com/google-moves-genomics-latest-collaboration
=== August 2016 ===
Google & Stanford Launching Clinical Genomics Service
<blockquote>''"Over more than a decade we’ve known Google as a search engine, but Google is not just a search engine which answers your queries, it’s more than that. Google offers various products that include YouTube, Google+, Gmail, Google Maps and much more. Google has already covered all the sectors of Information Technology, and now Google is growing beyond that. There are so many projects that are running under the hood of Google like the Self-driving car, Project Loon, and Energy kite. Google’s mission is to organize the world of Information, and now that will include our DNA information too"''</blockquote>
source : https://www.androidheadlines.com/2016/08/google-stanford-launching-clinical-genomics-service.html
== Google talk and interest in genetic ==
=== Mars March 2015 ===
Google Ventures and the Search for Immortality
