Data

Your Sequencing account gives you free, unlimited, and confidential storage for genetic data, along with the tools to upload, access, analyze, and download it. This section explains how data storage works on the platform and links to the details for each topic. Data is uploaded directly from your computer, and you keep full ownership and control of every file.

Storage basics

How Sequencing stores genetic data and why there are no storage, bandwidth, or computing fees.

• Free and unlimited storage: Store an unlimited number of genetic data files at no cost, with no bandwidth or computing fees.
• Universal data compatibility: The platform accepts genetic data from whole genome sequencing, exome sequencing, microarrays, and PCR, across common technologies and file formats.
• Storing: How your files are organized and held in your account.

File formats

The genetic data formats the platform works with.

• Formats overview: The range of supported genetic data file formats.
• FASTQ format compatibility: How Sequencing handles FASTQ files.
• Clinical+ VCF: A compact VCF format built for clinical applications, with no calls explicitly identified.

Working with your data

How to get data into your account, reach it, and take it with you.

• Uploading: Upload genetic data files directly from your computer.
• Accessing: How to reach and work with your stored files.
• Downloading: Download your genetic data files and results at any time.

Data protection

How your data is kept private, secure, and under your control.

• Ownership: You own your genetic data and decide what happens to it.
• Security: The safeguards that protect your stored data.
• Confidentiality: How your data is kept private under Sequencing's privacy standards.

Datasets

Reference information about the datasets associated with stored genetic data.

• Datasets: Details on dataset attributes such as population and sex.