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Genomics in the cloud

February 5, 2020February 6, 2020 Sanger Institute big data, bioinformatics, cancer, data, pan cancer analysis of whole genomes min read

The huge, international Pan-Cancer project is the first large-scale use of distributed cloud computing in genomics. As genomics becomes a big data science, it is likely to be the first of many

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Can sharing your personal data protect your freedom?

January 28, 2015June 29, 2018 Communications Team big data, data, ethics, European Union, personal data, research min read

28.01.15 Proposed EU limits on data use will limit genetic research, which relies on enormous data sets. Does preventing the sharing of personal data for research really serve the public’s interest, asks Sarion Bowers

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piggyBac jumping gene jumping around the mouse genome
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Using big data to understand small data

May 30, 2014July 2, 2018 Communications Team big data, cancer, transposons min read

30.05.14 Looking at patterns in vast datasets is helping researchers to pick out individual genes involved in cancer development and disregard misleading errors, explains Alistair Rust

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