Cloud computing is becoming the "darling" of the biomedical world. ——On August 14th, Beijing Berry and Kang Biotechnology Co., Ltd. and Alibaba Cloud announced to the outside world that they will cooperate to create a data cloud with a large number of Chinese population genomic data as the core to achieve accurate interpretation of personal genomic data. .
This time, the "Shenzhou Genome Data Cloud Project", which the two sides work together, will focus on the batch calculation, analysis and storage of genomic big data on the cloud platform, and then jointly explore the frontiers in the field of gene big data.
"Creating genomic big data is equivalent to the establishment of a Chinese version of the "Compendium of Materia Medica", which will record the core genetic information and life information of the Chinese population, and lay the foundation for the prediction, prevention, diagnosis and treatment of major diseases in the Chinese population. Its significance will be no less than the Oriental Medicine Dictionary of the Compendium of Materia Medica," said Dr. Berry and Kang, chief bioinformatics officer.
China is one of the regions with the highest birth defect rate in the world. Among the 16 million to 20 million births each year, there are between 800,000 and 1.2 million birth defects. From 1996 to 2010, the incidence of birth defects in newborns in China increased by 70.9%, and 149.9 out of every 10,000 newborns suffered from congenital defects.
This unfavorable situation will be improved with the implementation of the “Shenzhen Genomic Data Cloud†project. It is understood that the large database of Chinese population genomes independently constructed by Berry and Kang currently contains more than 400,000 genomic data. Through the in-depth exploration of the data resources, the distribution of genetic mutations in the Chinese population can be further revealed, which will greatly help to improve the efficiency and accuracy of the diagnosis of Chinese genetic diseases.
As the world's leading clinical translation service provider for gene sequencing technology, Berry and Kang are committed to providing a “non-invasive†overall solution for clinical medical disease screening and diagnosis. It is a non-invasive DNA prenatal test and individualized tumor targeting for tumor circulating DNA. An industry leader in medical genetic testing.
Gene sequencing is a novel gene detection technology that analyzes the entire sequence of genes from blood or saliva to predict the possibility of a variety of rare diseases, such as thalassemia.
Industry insiders pointed out that with the rapid development of medical technology such as next-generation gene sequencing, bio-mass spectrometry and medical imaging, the big data wave has brought unprecedented opportunities for biomedicine, which will fundamentally change the basic research and medical practice of biomedicine, but At the same time, the explosive growth of data in the biomedical field poses new challenges for the storage and analysis of massive data. Cloud computing virtualizes a large number of computing resources, storage resources and software resources to form a large-scale shared resource pool, which can effectively solve the flexible demand of biomedical resources for IT resources.
At present, the next-generation gene sequencing technology needs more accurate information. It is generally considered that the 30X gene sequencing depth is necessary, so a person's genome detection needs to generate about 90Gb of data. Such large amounts of data are very difficult to run on a typical computer or small server.
Alibaba Cloud is the world's leading cloud computing service platform. Through Alibaba Cloud, customers can remotely access massive computing, storage resources and big data processing capabilities using the Internet. According to the IDC research report, Alibaba Cloud is the largest public cloud computing service provider in China.
This time, Alibaba Cloud and Berry and Kang reached a cooperation, which is based on the powerful capabilities of Alibaba Cloud's batch computing services, using the advantages of cloud computing to reduce costs and improve the speed of data analysis.
Alibaba Cloud Batch Computing Service is a distributed cloud service for large-scale parallel batch operations. It is suitable for many industries such as biogene analysis, rendering, multimedia transcoding, scientific computing, and financial insurance analysis.
Alibaba Cloud senior expert Lin Heshan said, "With the help of batch computing services, users can mobilize massive computing resources to quickly complete the processing of gene big data. The batch computing service provides an easy-to-use API that allows users to be flexible through directed acyclic graphs. The workflow is set up, computing resource management, job scheduling, and data distribution are automatically completed by the system. At the same time, the batch computing service supports custom mirroring and allows applications to efficiently access Alibaba Cloud Object Storage (OSS) through the Network File System (NFS) protocol. The data makes the user's original analysis process easy to go to the cloud. Combined with Alibaba Cloud object storage, batch computing services can help bioinformatics experts quickly build large-scale genomics applications on the cloud."
He further said, "This cooperation with Berry and Kang, Alibaba Cloud will continue to optimize the cloud solution based on genomics to meet the needs of the development of the medical era."
Industry experts predict that the genomic data cloud completed by the two sides will have a far-reaching impetus to the accurate diagnosis, prevention and treatment of Chinese clinical medicine.
Undoubtedly, with Alibaba Cloud's batch computing service, users will be able to complete gene big data calculations more conveniently, simpler and more quickly, greatly reducing the cost of customers. Similarly, because of the empowerment of cloud computing, the “open door†for researchers to conduct large-scale genomics research will lead to a number of transformative outcomes that affect human health.
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