Google's been working on its latest project for about a
year and a half ago: it's service that will store entire copies of
genome. This isn't something Google Drive can cope with - decoding DNA
involves a lot of data. According to Technology Review, in raw data, one person's genome weighs in at around 100 gigabytes.
The plan is house all that DNA data
online, in big 'ole clouds where scientists will be able to run virtual
experiments and collaborate with each other on bigger (hopefully
disease-curing) projects. Google is battling against the likes of
Amazon and Microsoft to store expansive medical data like this: the
Mountain View company charges scientists and researchers $25 a year for
storing a single human genome -- although you'll have to pay a little
more to fiddle around with data.
