The Genome Analysis Toolkit is available on the Google cloud and will be launched on Amazon, Microsoft, and IBM's clouds and BaseSpace later this year.
Dozens of government agencies, academic institutions, and a various public and private sector organizations have now committed to driving the initiative forward.
Both companies have made their products available on Azure, and Curoverse is collaborating with Microsoft on benchmarking tools for analysis pipelines.
UC Santa Cruz is collaborating with Microsoft's research arm to use Azure to analyze data from several genomics projects focused on pediatric cancer and other diseases.
Mainichi reports that 43 percent of Japanese individuals said they did not want to eat agricultural products that had been modified using gene-editing tools.
