The research group of NEC (NEC) and Akihiro Nakatani, a specially appointed professor of the Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka University, has succeeded in applying a new technology for processing various data in encrypted form to genome analysis.By encrypting and analyzing the genome of personal information, the risk of privacy invasion can be suppressed, and it seems to be useful for research on personalized treatment based on genetic information.
According to NEC, the new technology divides the data and distributes it to three servers for calculation.Each piece of data is encrypted using random numbers, which makes it difficult to recover by distributing the servers.When the new technology was used for genome analysis at Osaka University, we succeeded in analyzing the genome information of about 3 people owned by multiple research institutes in about 8,000 second.
Furthermore, by applying a new technology support tool to Osaka University's own analysis algorithm, general system engineers can complete the work that experts had applied for about a month in a few days. Also became clear.
In order to develop drugs that correspond to individual genome information, research institutes such as universities are actively analyzing the relationship between the genome and diseases, but since the genome itself is personal information, it is shared among research institutes. It was difficult to do.
Since the conventional secret calculation is too complicated work, the slow calculation speed has been a problem, but the research group hopes that this new technology will have a positive effect on the progress of research.