Disclaimer: I used to work at a Stanford bioinformatics shop. There's a clear need of AWS-like features for bio/biomedical informatics specifically enabling sh

Disclaimer: I used to work at a Stanford bioinformatics shop. There's a clear need of AWS-like features for bio/biomedical informatics specifically enabling sharing, security, reuse and anonymization of data (PHI), libraries (like R's bioconductor) and infrastructure (IaaS/PaaS/SaaS). The issue is that some labs archive still archive their data on actual hard drives (USB and bare drives), making their data much less useful than somewhere readily available and sharable. I think it's a huge (billion+) opportunity where the right execution would need loads of smart, consultingish customer service reps (huge overhead costs) to help researchers with coding, sysadmining and bio to some degree. Basically, a full-service (with self-service, a-la carte features) hosting company for bio / medical. This space is only going to grow deeper and wider as more is discovered and confirmed about each gene, protein, pathway and each accompanying expansion in nosology. This sort of research knowledge is vital and unlikely to shrink. The main issues are that it would be a cash-intensive and undefensible business model because it requires paying lots of consultant/scientist brains and anyone can copy the model.