Scott Newman, PhD

Scott Newman, PhD, St. Jude Children&rsquo;s Research Hospital, discusses the St. Jude Cloud data-sharing resource for the research community.

The St. Jude Cloud was created to solve the problem of data sharing in pediatric cancer and other life-threatening diseases. As many in the field are moving toward whole genome sequencing, the amount and volume of data has increased exponentially, Newman says.

A whole genome sequence from a human is about 100 gigabytes in a BAM file. There are now BAM files from thousands of individuals, and it&rsquo;s becoming unrealistic for researchers to download this much data onto their computer. Newman explains the St. Jude Cloud will remove the need for the data to be downloaded.

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