Google has recently launched a new Bioinformatic resource 'Google Genomics'. Google Genomics provides an application-programming interface 'to store, process, explore, and share DNA sequence reads, reference-based alignments, and variant calls, using Google's cloud infrastructure'.

New Features

Store: With Google Genomics API, you can store alignments and variant calls for one or several genomes.

Process: You can analyze you data in batch by running principal component analysis or Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium.

Explore: You can explore your data by slicing alignments and variants.

Share: You can directly share your genomic data with the person you want to

How to Use

Sign up/sign in for a Google Account.

Create a Genomics enabled project via the Google Developers Console.

After redirection to the Credentials tab, click Create new client ID

Select Installed application under Application type

Select Other under Installed application type

Click Create Client ID

Under Client ID for native application, Click Download JSON and rename the downloaded file to client_secrets.json.