NIH issued statement on use of dbGaP in the Cloud

On Monday, the National Institutes of Health announced that it is now allowing investigators to request permission to transfer controlled-access genomic and associated phenotypic data obtained from NIH-designated data repositories, like dbGaP, under the auspices of the NIH Genomic Data Sharing (GDS) policy to public or private cloud systems for data storage and analysis.
Source: NCBI Announcements - Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news