NIH Makes Initial Revisions to Guidelines for Genomic Data Analysis in the Cloud

Grazed from GenomeWeb. Auhor: Editorial Staff.

The National Institutes of Health issued a position statement this week revising its existing polices on use of cloud computing services for storing and analyzing controlled access data stored in the Database of Genotypes and Phenotypes (dbGAP). In response to repeated calls from the community, the NIH began reviewing its existing policies for accessing and using information contained in dbGAP to give biomedical researchers the option to use cloud infrastructure analyze data from the repository on.

Under the existing policy, dbGAP data could not be analyzed using cloud compute because of concerns about the security of the data and to avoid risking the privacy of research participants. Now, according to the newly issued position statement, the NIH will allow investigators to request permission to move dbGAP genomic and associated phenotype data from NIH repositories to public or private cloud systems for data storage and analysis…

Data transfer will be subject to the dictates of the NIH’s Genomic Data Sharing policy, and cloud computing systems will be required to meet the data use and security standards outlined in the NIH’s best practices for controlled-access data as well as the requesting institution’s own IT security requirements and policies…

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