Toshiba Corporation will start the first verification testing of the transmission of genome analysis data produced by the "japonica array" Japanese genome analysis tool which is based on the whole-genome reference panel developed by the Tohoku University Tohoku Medical Megabank Organization, on August 31st.
Tohoku University has reached an agreement with Toshiba corporation in research areas related to "Research and Development of Health Care Big Data", on August 1st, 2013.

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