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Mar 22

Confidential Computing approach for secure-by-design data collaboration in genomics

Genetic Testing Market: different business models and siloed datasets With at least 250 genetic testing companies (GTCs) worldwide, there are only a few companies, database sizes of which exceed one million samples. The business model of the top direct-to-consumer (DTC) GTCs significantly differs from the one adopted by the majority…

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Confidential Computing approach for secure-by-design data collaboration in genomics

Mar 8

Introducing GRAPE — an open-source Genomic Relatedness Detection Pipeline

GRAPE is an end-to-end open-source Genomic RelAtedness detection PipelinE that can be freely used for scientific and commercial purposes (GitHub, Preprint). GRAPE is accurate for close and distant relatives and is ready for production use. What is relatedness detection and how does it work? On average, each person…

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Introducing GRAPE — an open-source Genomic Relatedness Detection Pipeline

Mar 8

Direct-to-Consumer Genetic Testing Market: trends, problems, open-source solutions

Trends: ancestry prediction and DNA relatives matching are the best-selling direct-to-consumer genetic services The Direct-To-Consumer (DTC) genetic testing market has been gathering momentum since the completion of the Human Genome Project in 2003. …

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Direct-to-Consumer Genetic Testing Market: trends, problems, open-source solutions