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Google to break through autism genetic code

According to foreign media reports, the past 15 years, disorganized information on the Internet, Google has been perfecting its identification technology. Now, the company will leverage that expertise, looking for data contained in the human genome genetic clues about autism in the ocean.

United States nonprofit autism research "voices of Autism" (Autism Speaks) announced on Tuesday that the Organization, in cooperation with Google, about 10,000 genomes of patients and their family members with autism are sorted. Google will store and manage the data, and these data open to qualified researchers. In their search for possible autism causes of genetic variation at the DNA, you can filter the data.

"The voice of Autism", Chief Scientific Officer of Luobu·Lin (Rob Ring), said: "we believe that understanding autism clues present in the genome. We hope to use the Internet to search similar technology and methods of search of the human genome, in order to find the missing answers. ”

The project will use a method called "Google genome" (Google Genomics) tool, Google quietly in its cloud computing platform a few months ago to launch the tool.

Human genome sequencing speed becomes faster and faster, and are becoming more affordable, Luobu·Lin said the completed sequencing of the human genome now costs only $ 2500, by contrast, when the human genome project (Human Genome Project) at a cost of nearly $ 3 billion. Genetic data is generated that allows researchers to grow astronomically. By allowing researchers to data stored on its servers, Google to display and improved its cloud computing capabilities, as well as genome research offers a potentially valuable service.

"Google genome" project supervisor, former Google+ project manager Dawei·geleize (David Glazer) pointed out that the search is not a keyword search of the human genome, researchers can search for a specific segment of the genome and the genome sequence, in order to find variations of a common genome fragment. Because a person's genome can be as many as 100,000 gigabytes, so that these data are stored in a central server for easy remote collaboration among researchers to more easily.

"The voice of Autism", President lizi·feierde (Liz Feld), said she strongly hoped that genetic analysis will help researchers to launch a more personalized treatments, because Genomic analysis allows people to have a more precise understanding of different subtypes of cancer. Reinfeldt said: "for us the most important thing is that this research will allow us to discover and understand the various forms of autism. ”

Autism genome project may be Google's first foray into the medical and pharmaceutical fields. It has aimed at everything from Parkinson's disease to cancer of all mankind has yet to conquer the disease, and its technological strength so that it has the capacity to carry out genomics research. In recent years, researchers have seen that biology can help people better understand these calculations. After all, nature has already spent billions of years to perfect DNA, make it as the most efficient way to store and transfer information.

Luobu·Lin says, "the voice of Autism" their genome data collected over a 10-year period. He said he now believes Google and other companies have been able to do some useful things: " we are aware that our biology's biggest problem is really big data problems . ”