Patent ID: 9536047
Date: 2017-01-03
CPC Classifications: G06F,G06Q,G16B,G16H,H04L

Claim:
1. A method to process genomic data comprising the steps of: associating, by a Certified Institution, a patient identification with a given patient; generating, by the Certified Institution, a pair of asymmetric keys related to said patient comprising a private and a public key; dividing, by the Certified Institution, the private key into at least a first and a second part; storing, by the Certified Institution, the second part of the private key in a medical unit or in a patient device; transmitting, by the Certified Institution, the first part of the private key to the Storage and Processing Unit; analyzing, by the Certified Institution, an output of a Deoxyribonucleic Acid (DNA) sequencer and preparing an aligned genomic data for said patient comprising approved variants, such as Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms (SNPs) or structural variants (SVs), each approved variant representing a position in the genome and a value representing a nucleotide that varies between individuals; extracting, by the Certified Institution, real and potential variants from said approved variants, said real and potential variants having each a position, said real variants being a subset of the approved variants and being different for each human being, said potential variants being the remaining part of the approved variants; encrypting the value of each real variant and of at least some selected potential variants with the public key of the patient; and sending the encrypted values with their respective positions and the patient identification to a Storage and Processing Unit.