Data Security in Metagenomic and Genomic Research Pipelines
In high-throughput bioinformatics, reproducibility is usually framed as an engineering problem: containerized workflows, pinned references, and versioned dependencies. For teams working with human-derived metagenomic data, that framing is incomplete. The moment raw reads can contain host DNA, reproducibility collides with privacy and governance. Biological samples such as blood, stool, saliva,