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