A Schematic Overview of Securing Precision Medicine Data with a DNA Database System

Volume: 12 Number: 1 March 1, 2017
  • Shannon Conley
  • Mehmet Kaya
  • Asaf Varol
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A Schematic Overview of Securing Precision Medicine Data with a DNA Database System

Abstract

This work explores the security challenges facing the implementation of the National Institute of Health’s proposed Precision Medicine Initiative® Cohort Program. The program is planning to recruit over a million participants and collect their health data over an extended period of time. Data will be made available to researchers to drive the development of more “precise preventive care and medical treatment”. However, the ability of the program to keep participants’ personal health information private is being scrutinized and might deter volunteer recruitment. This is due in large part to recent security breaches experienced by the US federal government in which over 20 million people’s security clearance data was stolen including credit card numbers and fingerprints. To secure the personal information of the volunteers, we propose the use of a natural computing nature-inspired hardware technique: molecular data storage. In this scheme, personal patient identifiers would be encoded and stored in DNA molecules, thus protected behind a “biological firewall”. The DNA database would only be accessed in the same laboratory environment(s) used to collect/process patient health samples and data would be retrieved using enzyme-based biological reactions. An anonymous volunteer id randomly assigned to each volunteer would be stored both in the DNA database and a traditional network connected database(s) used by program approved researchers and serve as the cross-reference key between databases. By adopting the technique, the new initiative could not only revolutionize the way medicine is practiced, but also the field of data storage and security

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Shannon Conley This is me

Mehmet Kaya This is me

Asaf Varol This is me

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March 1, 2017

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March 1, 2017

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Year 2017 Volume: 12 Number: 1

APA
Conley, S., Kaya, M., & Varol, A. (2017). A Schematic Overview of Securing Precision Medicine Data with a DNA Database System. Turkish Journal of Science and Technology, 12(1), 25-32. https://izlik.org/JA76ED73NR
AMA
1.Conley S, Kaya M, Varol A. A Schematic Overview of Securing Precision Medicine Data with a DNA Database System. TJST. 2017;12(1):25-32. https://izlik.org/JA76ED73NR
Chicago
Conley, Shannon, Mehmet Kaya, and Asaf Varol. 2017. “A Schematic Overview of Securing Precision Medicine Data With a DNA Database System”. Turkish Journal of Science and Technology 12 (1): 25-32. https://izlik.org/JA76ED73NR.
EndNote
Conley S, Kaya M, Varol A (March 1, 2017) A Schematic Overview of Securing Precision Medicine Data with a DNA Database System. Turkish Journal of Science and Technology 12 1 25–32.
IEEE
[1]S. Conley, M. Kaya, and A. Varol, “A Schematic Overview of Securing Precision Medicine Data with a DNA Database System”, TJST, vol. 12, no. 1, pp. 25–32, Mar. 2017, [Online]. Available: https://izlik.org/JA76ED73NR
ISNAD
Conley, Shannon - Kaya, Mehmet - Varol, Asaf. “A Schematic Overview of Securing Precision Medicine Data With a DNA Database System”. Turkish Journal of Science and Technology 12/1 (March 1, 2017): 25-32. https://izlik.org/JA76ED73NR.
JAMA
1.Conley S, Kaya M, Varol A. A Schematic Overview of Securing Precision Medicine Data with a DNA Database System. TJST. 2017;12:25–32.
MLA
Conley, Shannon, et al. “A Schematic Overview of Securing Precision Medicine Data With a DNA Database System”. Turkish Journal of Science and Technology, vol. 12, no. 1, Mar. 2017, pp. 25-32, https://izlik.org/JA76ED73NR.
Vancouver
1.Shannon Conley, Mehmet Kaya, Asaf Varol. A Schematic Overview of Securing Precision Medicine Data with a DNA Database System. TJST [Internet]. 2017 Mar. 1;12(1):25-32. Available from: https://izlik.org/JA76ED73NR