Google might primarily be seen by many to be a company that deals with search, as well as having made a huge impact in the world of smartphones thanks to its mobile operating system known as Android, but one thing is for sure – they are not the kind of company that sits back on their laurels, reacting to what goes on around. Rather, Google offers a go-getter mindset, charting new paths and possibly exploring various technologies while doing no evil along the way. It seems that Google Genomics is another project of theirs that will be able to store a whole copy of the human genome.
Sounds more like a fanciful kind of cloud storage, don’t you think so? After all, Google Drive certainly does not have the kind of space for you to stash your very own genome, which is where the latest Google Genomics effort comes in. Technology Review claims that when it comes to raw data for a single person’s genome, it would probably be somewhere in the region of 100GB thereabouts. The whole idea for Google Genomics would be to store your DNA data online in the cloud, and they will charge those who are interested an annual fee of $25 – although if you would like to gain access to such data and fiddle around with it, it will cost you extra.