Amazon, Google race to get DNA into the cloud

New York

AMAZON.COM Inc is in a race against Google Inc to store data on human DNA, seeking both bragging rights in helping scientists make new medical discoveries and market share in a business that may be worth US$1 billion a year by 2018.

Academic institutions and healthcare companies are picking sides between their cloud computing offerings - Google Genomics or Amazon Web Services - spurring the two to one-up each other as they win high- profile genomics business, according to interviews with researchers, industry consultants and analysts.