The 36th In Silico Megabank Research Seminar will be held on Friday, October 18.
This Time, we will be welcoming Dr. Kana Shimizu, The National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology as our lecturer, and she will be speaking on “Database Search with Secret （private）Computation” .

・Date/Time: October 18(Fri.) 17:00‐18:30
・Venue: Conference Room 1(2nd Floor), Tohoku Medical Megabank Organization http://www.megabank.tohoku.ac.jp/english/info/access.html
・Title: Database Search with Secret （private）Computation – Aim for its Application to Genome Database –
・Lecturer: Kana Shimizu（The National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST)）

・Abstract: In recent years the cost of DNA sequencing drastically fell, which enabled acquisition of genome data at individual level. However, the extreme difficulty still lies in the realization of both protecting privacy of genome including personal information and analyzing information with high flexibility. Although extraordinary amount of cost and effort has generated this rich store of data, such balance issue does not allow full utilization of the data at the present state. On the other hand, in the area of the Computer Science, data itself is coded, and secret computation technology is being developed where coded information is analyzed while contents of individual data are not revealed. By this lecture, we would like to introduce database search technology by the secret computation that we have developed and argue about its application to genome database.

・Organizer: Soichi Ogishima