Software engineer, David Glazer[1] is leading the campaign to have your DNA stored on Cloud. Google Genomics started around eighteen months ago, consulting scientists and working towards engineering an API that allows genetic data to be moved onto servers. It would enable an index to track billions of users in the name of science and medical breakthroughs via DNA.
The Wall Street Journal reported midyear that a patient’s genetic code would be less than a gigabyte and ‘economical’ to store on the Cloud platform. If a concept such as DNA storage is utilized, then large volumes of data can be collated onto servers, giving remote access to researchers. The argument presented with such a massive data intake of a person’s ‘blueprint’ would benefit the medical world. The mass storage of people’s genomes could be analyzed by hospitals and universities to get better insight into diseases such as cancer; aiding in the more suitable treatment for a person, down to a potential cure.[2]
However, with the storage comes a fee. Google has stated that it will cost around $25 per annum to store a single genome, and more to perform any computations on it.
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Sources:
[1] Jess Bolluyt (10 November 2014) “Why Google Wants to Store out DNA in the Cloud http://wallstcheatsheet.com/technology/why-google-wants-to-store-our-dna-in-the-cloud.html/?a=viewall (Retrieved 15 November 2014)
[2] John Vibes (8 November 2014)“Google Wants to Store your DNA on the Cloud.” http://theantimedia.org/google-store-dna-cloud/ The Anti Media (Retrieved 15 November 2014)
What has it come to…
This could further develop our genetic science, and the possibility of genetic memories to be accessible. But I don’t trust anyone who has my genes on record…
I sence assasins creed inspired this comment.
At least we are getting closer to the animus
But so are the Templars.
they gonna clone us and steal our identity. 😉
do you know me?
Oh cool, now they can target our dna and make a disease that attacks only who they want it to.
Nice
Somehow this reminds me of manticore from COD AW
I could never allow anyone to have my DNA its bad enough the gov wants to inplant chips in us to track us sounds to me google an the gov are def working together those political a**holes
Hey its better to take our own life than give away DNA to government. But lets fight for our own way. Have a nice day all of you. 🙂
This is not the way to do this and I think it’s very inconsiderate. Google has a couple intentions that are really weird and not like the original Google. Centralizing personal human data was not what Google originally stood for.
Perhaps Google is falling to the dark side? Let’s hope not. If they do, their success will surely falter, and I like Google, so that would be saddening.
If you could make things like this decentralized, where the contributor is in full control of their information and of full knowledge of the information available to others, then it could work. It’s just a gigabyte file of data; I think making it centralized is frightening, inconsiderate, and not the optimal solution.
From what Julian Assange reports of Google (https://wikileaks.org/google-is-not-what-it-seems) it seems that Google has not just fallen to the dark side, but is taking over the dark side… What is most concerning is Google’s involvement with the CIA and US foreign affairs, which as anyone can see is becoming increasingly aggressive. I would not entrust my DNA to a giant megacorp, no matter how benign and beneficent they portray themselves.
im honestly afraid someone to virtually clone me, my behaviour predictions is more than enought
Why would I want to store my DNA online and what’s more, why would I want to pay for it?
dna on cloud ? with the security of cloud ? where whe go …. what is next …
They’re right. In the right hands, this could help stave off epidemics, send antibiotics to the sick during early stages of sickness as well as help identify if someone has had an accident without the ability to call out for help.
However, in this day and age, The wrong person would make the claims that I just made in order for things against our will. Possibility of making people sick, controlling them, wrongful containment…
At the end of the day, it’s another way for a corporation to sell a tyrannical item to the mass public with false hopes.