Numerous large scale human genome research projects employing omics technologies (e.g. whole genome sequencing, exome sequencing, transcriptome sequencing, epigenome sequencing, etc.) have been launched (e.g. UK Biobank, International Human Epigenome Consortium projects, 100,000 Genomes Project, AstraZeneca 2M Genomes project, etc.), producing considerable amounts of personal genome data for analysis. More often than not, the scale of these datasets necessitates use of cloud-computing resources to either store or analyze (and increasingly in many cases both) the vast amounts of data. Importantly, the shift to cloud-computing moves the personal data and analysis to an environment outside of personal/research lab control, thus necessitating an understanding of the legal and ethical obligations in maintaining data privacy, and experience in architecting and operating in cloud-compute environments to ensure human genome data is secure yet accessible by those with permissions. ‘Working with Big Data in the Cloud’ thus presents an opportunity for researchers from the three societies to come together to learn about the legal and ethical frameworks governing personal genome data, particularly in the cloud-computing environment, and to share best practices for operating securely in this environment while still facilitating research. The session is designed to bring awareness of the legal and ethical obligations for genomic data in cloud-computing and to share techniques and best practices in computing for maintaining this privacy and security, and to learn of their application to current big genome data projects.

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