The best way to protect personal biomedical data from hackers could be to treat the problem like a game
- Written by Zhiyu Wan, Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Biomedical Informatics, Vanderbilt University
Biomedical research relies on large amounts of genomic data, which has to be protected from revealing people's identities.AP Photo/Jerome DelayThe Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work.
The big idea
Game theory, which tries to predict how the behavior of competitors influences the choices the other players make, can help...