Amazon Web Services now hosting massive genetic database: the 1,000 Genomes Project — from The Verge by Adi Robertson
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Amazon Web Services has just announced that it will be providing space for hosting and analyzing data collected by the 1,000 Genomes Project, an international effort to collect and catalog a vast amount of genetic information from anonymous donors worldwide. Amazon will be footing the bill to host the roughly 200 terabytes of information, but will charge researchers to use its cloud computers if they want to analyze specific sets of data. The company certainly stands to make money on the deal, but its computing tools may also allow greater access to groups with limited computing resources of their own.