How we’re searching the world’s genetic data

The sensitive nature of genetic data causes a major concern in genetics - a lot of life-saving information, despite having been collected, is inaccessible. Data discovery and sharing has long been believed to be the key making new breakthroughs.In this session, we tell the story of developing a standard for search of genetic data and its implementation in the form of the world’s largest search and discovery engine of human genetic data today. The effort is a result of years of collaboration between developers, researchers and scientists on a global scale, and the flagship project of the Global Alliance for Genomics and Health, a coalition of over 500 institutions focused on standardizing sharing of genetic data.We’ll go from challenges, architecture and technologies behind this open-source project, through the development of a standard for genetic data search, to fun statistics capturing what people are searching for in the system.Come and learn about the technical decisions that allowed us to scale and disrupt the perception of genetic data!