Biotechs, Pharma Talk Cloud at AWS Symposium
June 8 • Bio-IT World, USA
Peter Goodhand, CEO of the Global Alliance for Genomics and Health, gave an update on the scale of genomics data worldwide and outlined the case for global genomic data sharing. More data can clearly better demonstrate patterns in health and disease, increase statistical significance, and increase accuracy in diagnoses and precision medicine, but we have moved past the idea that a few groups can hold all the needed data. Instead, we must share resources, and Goodhand argued for a needed paradigm shift from copying and downloading our shared data to data visiting.
