Steven Brenner warns about the risk to patients' confidential data
Concerns are growing about how to properly control access to genome information held in research databases. In an opinion piece in the Journal Nature, Steven Brenner discusses the real possibility of a major genome leak in the near future. If and when it happens, how will scientists, researchers and the public react?
Brenner is a computational biologist at PMB.
The Brenner Lab develops methods to characterize macromolecular function and relationships using protein and RNA sequence information, evolutionary principles, and computational methods. Recently the Brenner group has been active in using genomes in medicine. Brenner is an expert in genome analysis and analyzing big data in science.
Link to opinion piece at Nature.com
Link to Steven Brenner's further commentary and annotations about the issue on his website: compbio.berkeley.edu
Link to Steven Brenner's faculty page