Large data analysis gene sequence opens a new chapter in medical industry

Bina Marvell, who had obtained venture capital from Google and Dropbox, has again gained $6.5 million trillion in funding, according to TC. The money will be split into two parts, partly for the expansion of the research and development sector and partly for the expansion of the business sector.

Bina Marvell was founded in 2011, but was opened only last month. The average knowledge of the entrepreneurial team is no more than right, both from Stanford University and the University of California, Berkeley, where the research direction is large data or biological information. Yes, Bina Marvell's goal is to integrate life sciences with computer science.

The main business of Bina Marvell is to analyze human genome sequences by means of large data analysis, and their analysis will be the base material for downstream medical service industries such as research institutions and clinicians. For now, as many as 2000 American companies will be targeting the human genome sequence, a figure expected to reach 8,500 by 2015. However, these companies are powerless to deal with complex genetic data.

Including 23andme, which we have covered, these genetic analysis companies are able to collect and apply human genome sequences to infer what diseases are susceptible to different clients, but many of them are not available. Bina Marvell hopes to fill this gap by becoming a platform, a database that allows downstream institutions, such as research universities, pharmaceutical companies and medical institutions, to learn more about the relationship between genetic variants and various diseases on the basis of the data they provide.

Today, when cloud storage becomes a mainstream data storage solution, Bina also chooses cloud services as its storage medium for large amounts of data. Genetic information has a strong specificity, it is the most private personal information, who do not know what the consequences of this information can be caused. At present, there is no cloud storage service providers to ensure that their data storage services are absolutely safe, how to ensure the security of information has become a Bina have to face a major problem.

Currently Bina Marvell has signed a cooperation agreement with some medical research institutions, including the Stanford Genetics Institute, whose research project requires analysis of hundreds of complete human genomes, and Bina services help them shorten their once-long days to 5 hours; and the Wisconsin Medical Center, The center hopes that every newborn baby they deliver will be able to undergo a complete genetic analysis.

(Responsible editor: Fumingli)