The network is named ANVIL. It is a newly built online platform providing anyone on the Internet access to more than a thousand analyses, records, and over three lakhs genomes.
The open-sourced network is a project of NHGRI and appears as in Cell Genomics. AnVIL mainly includes all the pre-models of genomics and data sharing. It offers various new opportunities for researchers in science by connecting them and their datasets.
A typical genomic analysis begins with downloading data from centralized storage to your own data center. Such a process is time-consuming and inefficient. After all, being expensive, it does not collaborate with similar researchers at some different institutions.
The network will be open for all institutions (and of all sizes). Smaller institutions that may not have enough resources to build their data center can also use this compiled database. Researchers hope that AnVIL levels all institutions so that everyone has an equal right to make discoveries.
Risky factors ailments like cancer/ cardiovascular diseases are often critical and require researchers to analyze more than thousands of genomes for discovering new associations. The raw genomic data for a single human comprises more than forty GBs. Thus, downloading these many genomes can take several days.
Therefore, many studies integrated these collected data from multiple institutions. Here each institute must download many copies ensuring that patient data is secure. Such a challenge becomes even mightier shortly. Researchers embark on studies on this and hence, require analysis of millions of genomes at a single time.
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