Using Ethereum blockchain to store and query pharmacogenomics data via smart contracts.

ABSTRACT:

Background

As pharmacogenomics data becomes increasingly integral to clinical treatment decisions, appropriate data storage and sharing protocols need to be adopted. One promising option for secure, high-integrity storage and sharing is Ethereum smart contracts. Ethereum is a blockchain platform, and smart contracts are immutable pieces of code running on virtual machines in this platform that can be invoked by a user or another contract (in the blockchain network). The 2019 iDASH (Integrating Data for Analysis, Anonymization, and Sharing) competition for Secure Genome Analysis challenged participants to develop time- and space-efficient Ethereum smart contracts for gene-drug relationship data.

Methods

Here we design a specific smart contract to store and query gene-drug int

SUBMITTER: Gursoy G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7268467 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature