Google Genomics was established in 2014 and is a cloud computing service that will store genomes for around $25 each per year. Their aim is to help the life science community organize the world’s genetic information to make it accessible and useful to all. One major new customer who has recognized the potential Google Genomics has to offer is Stanford Medicine.
Stanford Medicine joined forces with Google Genomics in a bid to increase their research capabilities and better use this genomic data to vastly improve patient care. The initiative that was formed under this partnership is called Clinical Genomics Service and will be launching later this year. Google will do what it is good at and store all the genomic data, and Stanford Medicine will be in control of how that data is used and shared, obviously adhering to federal privacy rules during the whole process.
This new data will mean new possibilities for Stanford Medicine in improving how it treats cancer patients as well as being able to diagnose rare diseases in children that have a genetic cause. They will also use the genomic data in a more proactive way by helping to prevent patients from getting ill in the first instance. Previously, to a sequence, a patient’s whole genome was very expensive, but now costs have reduced dramatically to around $3,000 to $5,000 a time, making it far more feasible to administer.
The newly formed partnership is looking set to achieve its goals in regards to making genome data more readily available and improving diagnosis techniques also. They will also be exploring the possibilities if the show they can use machine learning technology to assist radiologists in discovering tumors and another diagnosis’ from medical scans.
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