HealthTech '14 - Differentially Private Genome Data Dissemination Through Top-Down Specialization

Differentially Private Genome Data Dissemination Through Top-Down Specialization

Shuang Wang and Xiaoqian Jiang, University of California, San Diego; Noman Mohammed, McGill University; Rui Chen, Hong Kong Baptist University; Lucila Ohno-Machado, University of California, San Diego

We present a novel approach for disseminating genomic data while satisfying differential privacy. The proposed algorithm splits raw genome sequences into blocks, subdivides the blocks in a top-down fashion, and finally adds noise to counts to protect privacy. Preliminary experimental results suggest that the proposed …

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