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Scaling Out Bioinformatics in the Data Center

Whole Genome Sequencing is a process in the field of bioinformatics that transforms biological samples of DNA into an electronic dataset of genetic bases. The process consists of two sequential components. First, the laboratory process of sequencing transf ...

EPFL2019

On Secure Cloud Computing for Genomic Data: From Storage to Analysis

Zhicong Huang

Although privacy is generally considered to be the right of an individual or group to control information about themselves, such a right has become challenging to protect in the digital era, this is exemplified by the case of cloud-based genomic computing. ...

EPFL2018

Simulating the Large-Scale Erosion of Genomic Privacy Over Time

Mathias Jacques Jean-Marc Humbert

The dramatically decreasing costs of DNA sequencing have triggered more than a million humans to have their genotypes sequenced. Moreover, these individuals increasingly make their genomic data publicly available, thereby creating privacy threats for thems ...

IEEE COMPUTER SOC2018

Development and implementation of eco-genomic tools for aquatic ecosystem biomonitoring: the SYNAQUA French-Swiss program

Régis Lionel Vivien

The effectiveness of environmental protection measures is based on the early identification and diagnosis of anthropogenic pressures. Similarly, restoration actions require precise monitoring of changes in the ecological quality of ecosystems, in order to ...

SPRINGER HEIDELBERG2018

Privacy-Enhancing Technologies for Medical and Genomic Data: From Theory to Practice

Jean Louis Raisaro

The impressive technological advances in genomic analysis and the significant drop in the cost of genome sequencing are paving the way to a variety of revolutionary applications in modern healthcare. In particular, the increasing understanding of the human ...

EPFL2018

Scanning tunneling microscopy on large bio-molecular systems on surfaces

Sebastian Koslowski

The ever growing demand for the development of new technologies and materials has led to extensive studies inspired by biological functional complexes. Peptides with their outstanding ability to efficiently self-assemble can express a broad spectrum of int ...

EPFL2017

Combining genotype, phenotype and environment to infer potential candidate genes: An example using the Loblolly pine (Pinus taeda)

Stéphane Joost

Population genomic analyses can be an important tool in understanding local adaptation. Identification of potential adaptive loci in such analyses is usually based on the survey of a large genomic dataset in combination with environmental variables. Phenot ...

Oxford University Press2017

Transcription facilitated genome-wide recruitment of topoisomerase I and DNA gyrase

Stewart Cole, Claudia Sala, Wareed Ahmed

Movement of the transcription machinery along a template alters DNA topology resulting in the accumulation of supercoils in DNA. The positive supercoils generated ahead of transcribing RNA polymerase (RNAP) and the negative supercoils accumulating behind i ...

Public Library Science2017

Privacy-preserving genomic testing in the clinic: a model using HIV treatment

Jean-Pierre Hubaux, Jacques Fellay, Erman Ayday, Jean Louis Raisaro, Paul Jack Mc Laren, Istvan Bartha

The implementation of genomic-based medicine is hindered by unresolved questions regarding data privacy and delivery of interpreted results to health-care practitioners. We used DNA-based prediction of HIV-related outcomes as a model to explore critical is ...

Nature Publishing Group2016

A privacy-preserving solution for compressed storage and selective retrieval of genomic data

Jean-Pierre Hubaux, Jacques Fellay, Erman Ayday, Adam Molyneaux, Zhi Ming Xu, Zhicong Huang, Huang Lin

In clinical genomics, the continuous evolution of bioinformatic algorithms and sequencing platforms makes it beneficial to store patients' complete aligned genomic data in addition to variant calls relative to a reference sequence. Due to the large size of ...

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory2016

Privacy and Security in the Genomic Era

Jean-Pierre Hubaux, Erman Ayday

With the help of rapidly developing technology, DNA sequencing is becoming less expensive. As a consequence, the research in genomics has gained speed in paving the way to personalized (genomic) medicine, and geneticists need large collections of human gen ...

Assoc Computing Machinery2016

Phylogenetic comparison of Desulfotomaculum species of subgroup 1a and description of Desulfotomaculum reducens sp.nov

Rizlan Bernier-Latmani, Manon Frutschi

A genome and physiological comparison was made of the type strains of Desulfotomaculum species belonging to subgroup 1a and of 'Desulfotomaculum reducens' strain MI-1. Phenotypically, 'Desulfotomaculum reducens' strain MI-1 can be distinguished from the ot ...

Society for General Microbiology2016