Blockchain for genomics and healthcare: a literature review, current status, classification and open issues.

ABSTRACT: The tremendous boost in the next generation sequencing technologies and in the "omics" technologies resulted in the generation of hundreds of gigabytes of data per day. Nowadays, via integrating -omics data with other data types, such as imaging and electronic health record (EHR) data, panomics studies attempt to identify novel and potentially actionable biomarkers for personalized medicine applications. In this respect, for the accurate analysis of -omics data and EHR, there is a need to establish secure and robust pipelines that take the ethical aspects into consideration, regulate privacy and ownership issues, and data sharing. These days, blockchain technology has picked up significant attention in diverse fields, including genomics, since it offers a new solution for these problems fr

SUBMITTER: Adanur Dedeturk B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8487622 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature