PRINCESS: Privacy-protecting Rare disease International Network Collaboration via Encryption through Software guard extensionS
Author(s) -
Feng Chen,
Shuang Wang,
Xiaoqian Jiang,
Sijie Ding,
Yao Lu,
Jihoon Kim,
S. Cenk Ṣahinalp,
Chisato Shimizu,
Jane C. Burns,
Victoria Wright,
Eileen Png,
Martin L. Hibberd,
David Lloyd,
Hai Yang,
Amalio Telenti,
Cinnamon S. Bloss,
Dov Fox,
Kristin Lauter,
Lucila OhnoMachado
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
bioinformatics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.599
H-Index - 390
eISSN - 1367-4811
pISSN - 1367-4803
DOI - 10.1093/bioinformatics/btw758
Subject(s) - homomorphic encryption , computer science , encryption , guard (computer science) , software , computer security , computation , secure multi party computation , cryptography , operating system , algorithm , programming language
We introduce PRINCESS, a privacy-preserving international collaboration framework for analyzing rare disease genetic data that are distributed across different continents. PRINCESS leverages Software Guard Extensions (SGX) and hardware for trustworthy computation. Unlike a traditional international collaboration model, where individual-level patient DNA are physically centralized at a single site, PRINCESS performs a secure and distributed computation over encrypted data, fulfilling institutional policies and regulations for protected health information.
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