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title: ZK x Bio

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# ZK x Bio

## Bio Problems
- Data cleanup: no standardization, every institutino uses a different format
- Data fragmentation due to privacy: data gated by hositals because they have to be privacy compliant
- Data fragmentation due to competitiveness: private companies gate their data because of trade secrets
- Not enough data overall: even if we sequence everyone's data there's only 8 billion data points for trillions of features
- Maybe alphafold is bottlenecked by compute? Not sure

## ZKP Ideas

- Verify computations to train models
    - Anyone with computation can participate
    - Genotype -> phenotype model?
    - Public diagnosis models (like lung X-ray but general diagnosis)
        - Typically only trained by private company, now we can make public
        - Second opinion - upload your X-ray, get AI opinion
        - A sane WebMD
- Verify data quality
    - All data in column X conforms to Y format
    - Data is linked to a verified source
- Federated training
    - Train model locally, upload weights and proof
- PSI to join two databases in a ZK way
    - Plaid for medical data -- verify you're a member of one medical, kaiser etc. and/or PIR to pull your data from services like one medical without the provider knowing that you connected to a third party service
- Verify accurate donated data
    - Donate emails, pull information from emails and verify that way
    - Example use case: connect all your 23andme, one medical, amazon purchases data and more together
- Safe data store for health/nutrition/dna etc
    - Donors contribute their health data
    - Donors get free insights from inferrence (only the donor appreciates this benefits, no mafia going around to collect people's data)
    - Researchers can make requests for features (e.g "I want to know how many glasses of wine people that match critera X drank last week") and donors can respond
    - Faster and better way to collect data and draw correlations
- Public record database verified by zkp
    - Incentivize people to index public records, clean, and make them available for discoverability and availability
    - Proof that verify the source (fetch the public records site, verify that correct data returns) -> "Correctness guarantee"
    - Marriage and divorce, obiturary, criminal records...
    - Data marketplace (sources verified zk)

## MPC (multi party computation)

- Comparison between data sets
    - Size of intersection (eg between two hospitals)
    - Are our targets the same target (eg between drug discovery companies) -> public tool to reduce redundant efforts?
- Federated training

## MVP Ideas

- Find 2 hospitals, one with data and one with correlations --> calculate the correlation from the data
- Data integrity
    - Minimal public record crawler
- Biomarker Consortium --> partner to implement zkp with their member organizaions