Toshiba Corporation, Tohoku Medical Megabank Organization (ToMMo) at Tohoku University and Tohoku University Hospital have demonstrated that quantum cryptographic communication generation can provide genomic medicine with a safe and absolutely secure environment of knowledge control. This was achieved through (1) emerging a formula that applies the generation of quantum cryptographic communication to clinical sequencing, and (2) employing this formula to safely transmit knowledge of cancer genome research (exome series knowledge), through an online panel of mavens involving physicians and other mavens. to analyze knowledge in series (Figure 1). This is the first progression and demonstration in the world of a formula employing the generation of quantum cryptographic communication in the box of genomic medicine.
Clinical sequencing is a new examination in genomic medicine that uses a series of next-generation series to read a patient’s genetic series at very high speeds. The effects of genomic knowledge research are then supplanted by physicians and other mavens to lend a hand in the patient’s diagnosis and in the selection of remedies. This formula builds on and expands the functions announced through Toshiba and ToMMo in January this year, and the achievements of this demonstration are a primary step toward a practical formula that will provide safe and secure genomic medicine.
This study, carried out as a component of the Strategic Innovation Creation (SIP) program of the Council for Science and Technology and Innovation, “Society 5. 0 Realization Technology Utilizing Light and Quantum” (Organization for Research and Development of Quantum Science and Technology). Toshiba, ToMMo and Tohoku University Hospital will provide key demonstration and generation points at the QCrypt International Conference 2020 (10th International Conference on Quantum Cryptography) august 10-14.
In January of this year, Toshiba and ToMMo announced a series of quantum cryptography transmission experiments that took place in July and August 2019 that effectively transmitted full knowledge of the genomic series for the first time in the world. Since then, and have joined through Tohoku University Hospital, they have had complex studies by focusing on two spaces similar to clinical sequencing of cancer patients: the type of knowledge that will have to remain confidential; and processes for using quantum cryptographic generation in the decryption of knowledge.
Clinical sequencing encompasses knowledge of genome research that is highly confidential, not public data very similar to the physical and physical fitness of a person who will have to be kept safe. For the same reason, it is also necessary for the knowledge generated through an online panel of mavens involving doctors and mavens that percentage the genetic knowledge of the patient and the diagnostic effects through remote access.
After considering this, Toshiba, ToMMo and Tohoku University Hospital successfully demonstrated encryption in two areas using quantum cryptographic communication technology:
Transmission of genome analysis data uses a one-time pad cryptography that Toshiba and ToMMo announced in January 2020. Genome data is encrypted as it is sequenced, with a cryptographic key distributed from the quantum key distribution system, and transmitted using the one-time pad. The transmission system is designed for ease of use. Menus on the operator’s screen allow simple selection of the number of the specimen for analysis, and of the transmission method.
A secure environment for expert panel was achieved by setting up two-way transmission of audio-visual signals that is linked to a key management server that stores and manages quantum cryptographic keys. This server receives audio-visual feeds from an on-site conferencing system, uses a one-time pad to encrypt it, and transmits it to another key management server at a different site. It uses the same one-time pad to decrypt encrypted audio-visual feeds from the other site, and transfers it to the in-house conference system. The outcome is a totally secure environment where genome data can be discussed with confidence.
Toshiba, ToMMo and Tohoku University Hospital tested the formula from January to July this year. They conducted a real-time transmission of 96 samples of exome series knowledge of the genomes of cancer patients at Tohoku University Hospital and simulated a 65-minute online convention involving a total of 10 physicians and fitness professionals. The effects showed that the generation of quantum cryptographic communications supported large-scale knowledge transfers of genomes and reactive case conventions in real time.
These effects verify that quantum cryptographic communications enable secure transfers of knowledge and real-time communications and diagnostics. In addition to providing a secure basis for genomics professionals to percentage and talk about highly confidential non-public knowledge, it also paves the way for the long-term progression of telemedicine services, where patients in remote places can have confidence in the confidentiality of medical consultations.
Demonstration base:
Toshiba Life Science Analysis Center (Minamiyoshinari, Aoba Ward, Sendai City)
Seiryo Campus of Tohoku University, construction of tohoku medical megabank (Seiryo-machi, Aoba district, Sendai city)
Tohoku University Hospital (Seiryo-machi, Aoba Ward, Sendai City)
Trial period:
January 2020 – July 2020
Transmission information:
96 specimens of knowledge of the exome series (about 3.1 terabytes)
Data of simulated online conference (approx. 1.4 gigabytes)
Number of conference participants
Ten other people in total
Toshiba will continue to paint on the practical application of quantum cryptography in high security areas, adding medical, monetary and communication infrastructure. ToMMo and Tohoku University Hospital will continue to paint heavily in combination to announce the use of safe and protected ICT technologies for information-based genomic medical treatment.
Toshiba Corporation, New
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