TOE TO TOE: Amazon and Google are one-upping each other as they win high-profile genomics business, according to interviews with researchers, industry consultants and analysts.
NEW YORK: Amazon.com Inc is in a race against Google Inc to store data on human DNA, seeking both bragging rights in helping scientists make new medical discoveries and market share in a business that may be worth US$1bil (RM3.71bil) a year by 2018.
Academic institutions and healthcare companies are picking sides between their cloud computing offerings – Google Genomics or Amazon Web Services – spurring the two to one-up each other as they win high-profile genomics business, according to interviews with researchers, industry consultants and analysts.
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