Cloud Helps Fight Cancer:Estimate the amount of data

required to analyze the human genome of 100 patients

for each of 20 different types of cancer.

Students’ Name: Doctor’s Name:

Rayysah Audah. Kholoud Al-Qahtani
Mukhaila Abdullah
Shoug Abdullah
Walimah Al Nasser
Razan Muhammed
To estimate the amount of data required to analyze the
human genome of 100 patients for each of 20 different types
of cancer, we need to know the size of a single human
genome in terms of data and the number of patients being
analyzed for each cancer type.
According to the passage, it takes about 100 gigabytes of data
to represent a single human genome. Analyzing 100 patients
for each of 20 different types of cancer would require
analyzing 100 x 20 = 2000 patient genomes.
Therefore, the amount of data required to analyze the
human genome of 100 patients for each of 20 different types
of cancer would be:
2000 genomes x 100 gigabytes per genome = 200,000
gigabytes or 200 terabytes
References:
1. The National Human Genome Research Institute
(NHGRI) states that a single human genome sequence
can generate up to 100 gigabytes of raw data.
https://www.genome.gov/about-genomics/fact-sheets/Se
quencing-Human-Genome-cost
2. Illumina, a leading manufacturer of DNA sequencing
technology, estimates that a single human genome
sequence generates approximately 80-100 gigabytes of
raw data.
https://www.illumina.com/science/education/sequencing
-technology/next-generation-sequencing/plan-experime
nts/data-output.html
3. A paper published in Nature Biotechnology in 2016
reported that a typical human genome sequence
generated between 50-100 gigabytes of raw data.
https://www.nature.com/articles/nbt.3772