Weekend Reading: Google Helping To Cure Cancer By Storing The Human Genome

It’s true.  The National Cancer Institute said last month that it would pay $19 million to move copies of the 2.6 petabyte Cancer Genome Atlas into the cloud. Copies of the data, from several thousand cancer patients, will reside both at Google Genomics and in Amazon’s data centers.

Read the science facts here:

Now Google Wants Your Genome, Too | MIT Technology Review.