UK Biobank Pivoting to Platform-Only Model For Big Data Sharing

When it comes to big data, the largest amount comes from whole genome sequencing (WGS). At the population scale, WGS produces petabytes of information that for sharing purposes requires cloud computing capabilities.

That realization came early to UK Biobank, the large-scale biomedical database and research resource built on the altruism of half a million largely healthy Brits who “donated bits of themselves” in the form of information and biomedical samples between 2006 and 2010, according to Mark Effingham, Deputy CEO of UK Biobank. Six years ago, as those blood samples started being sequenced by an industry consortium (comprising Amgen, AstraZeneca, GSK, and Johnson & Johnson), plans were being laid with DNAnexus for the creation of an...

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