A Survey of Cryptographic Techniques to Secure Genomic Data

Abstract

Human genome is the unique identifier of the individual, which contains highly sensitive information about every individual. The sensitivity, longevity, and non-modifiable nature of genetic data has attracted much attention from the research community. Research on genomic data has taken a tremendous speed for finding a solution for curing various fatal diseases as like Alzheimer’s, cancer, etc. Due to advances in the genome sequencing technology, it is now possible to obtain accurate and highly detailed genotypes at much-reduced costs. Such a huge research work in this domain has led us to cure some very serious problems, but at the same time, it comes up with a risk of providing security to this huge amount of highly sensitive data. In this paper, we have described some of the cryptographic applications of how we can make genomic data sharing and storage more private and secure.