KQED Launches Genetic Data Analysis Platform
Data sets in genomic research are currently dominated by individuals of European ancestry. There is a global population that has not participated in genomic research and possesses differentiated gene variants that could lead to novel discoveries. KQED FM identified an opportunity to gain a competitive advantage by working with these underrepresented communities. KQED has developed a platform that integrates genetic and phenotypic multiomic data from global populations. KQED has launched a new platform designed to analyze amounts of data, potentially petabytes. The platform aims to help users analyze data all at once and look for novel associations. The platform aims to identify novel associations with genes, addressing the overwhelming number of results that would be unmanageable for human analysis.
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“data sets. Everyone's looking at genetic data, data sets that are dominating. by European ancestry individuals. And there's a big world out there. There's a lot of communities, a lot of groups around the world that have never participated in genomic research that have differentiated gene variants that could lead to novel discoveries and no one was working with them. And we saw an opportunity to have a competitive advantage.”
“from diverse populations all over the world. So that was really the... the founding vision of variants. If we could, everyone's looking at the same data, so therefore everyone's finding the same genetically validated targets. If we could build a diverse, different,”
“the same genetically validated targets. If we could build a diverse, different, data set, we could have, therefore, have access to data that no one else has and, therefore, find targets with strong human genetic evidence that no one else knew about.”
“Put it all in one platform that is all, you can analyze it.”
“it all in one platform that is all, you can analyze it. all together all at once. And as you can imagine, when you're taking, you know, it's multiple petabytes of data, just absolute massive amounts of data and analyzing that and looking for novel associates.”
“massive amounts of data and analyzing that and looking for novel associates.”
“massive amounts of data and analyzing that and looking for novel associates. with genes, the number of results that come back is overwhelming to a human.”
“the associations for a particular gene and it searched all of those genetic data sets that we've created, it'll come back with something like 25,000 different associations between this gene and different phenotypes, different measures of health.”
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