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But it's available on AWS. Can't google query it there?
by TechBro8615 4y ago
But it's available on AWS. Can't google query it there?
- dekhn 4y agoSure, if a Google researcher applies for and gets access to dbGaP through NCBI, they will get a secret key to decrypt the private parts of the data. But that wouldn't make any sense since this is many many terabytes of data and typically you'd want to convert it to a format that is optimized for data processing. But that wasn't the point. The point was to have copies of the data preloaded into Google Cloud, preformatted for high performance data processing by a wide range of researchers. One of the highlights of my career was working directly with Jeff Dean and Sanjay Ghemawat on mapreduces that turned FASTQ and BAM files into sstables.