DNA Sequencing Is Moving to the Cloud

In October, an ambitious, collaborative genetic research program based at Baylor University became the largest cloud-based genomic research project to date, by its own account. As part of Cohorts for Heart and Aging Research in Genomic Epidemiology, or CHARGE, the sequencing endeavored to link the risk of particular diseases with particular genetic variants -- a task that checks off two variables that mean big data: population research and whole genome sequencing.