QuantaGenomics is a QuantERA ERA-NET Cofund in Quantum Technologies project with focus on the development of a quantum-enabled secure multiparty computation service for collaborative genomic medicine. The consortium of this project is composed by:

• Instituto de Telecomunicações (IT), Portugal;

• Sorbonne Université (SU), France;

• French National Institute for Research in Digital Science and Technology (INRIA), France;

• Ophiomics, Portugal;

• Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM), Spain;

• Institut de Ciències Fotòniques (ICFO), Spain.

In this project, we are going to replace the classical oblivious transfer (OT) implementation by a quantum-enabled OT in a secure multiparty computation (SMC) protocol, leading to a solution that is both fast and secure, even against quantum computer attacks. This quantum OT version has a very convenient and practical structure because it can be divided into two phases: offline and online. The offline phase uses quantum communication to generate the resources, i.e. oblivious keys. Afterwards, these keys are used during the online phase to complete the protocol. The advantage of this separation of phases is that only the online phase is required to be executed during the SMC session. So, there is no need to run any quantum protocol during the online SMC phase because it can be done during the offline (precomputation) phase, which increases the speed and availability of the system without compromising its security. On top of the quantum-enabled SMC protocol, we are going to develop a privacy-preserving data mining service involving a particular genomic medicine use case. Medical databases are extensive repositories containing confidential information.

Objectives

• Definition of a minimum set of quantum and classical resources and cryptographic primitives to support fast and practical SMC.
• Definition of a set of practical protocols to implement a broadly available quantum-enabled fast SMC service for genomic medicine services.
• Laboratorial validation of a broadly available application for genomics supported by a quantum enabled fast and secure generic multiparty computation framework.
• Integration of the quantum resources and protocols on a software-defined optical network in a coexistence scenario.
• Field trial demonstration of a genomic medicine service supported by quantum technologies.

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Project’s acknowledgment to include in publications:

"We acknowledge the support of the QuantaGenomics project funded within the QuantERA II Programme that has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under Grant Agreement No 101017733, and with funding organisations, The Foundation for Science and Technology – FCT (QuantERA/0001/2021), Agence Nationale de la Recherche - ANR, and State Research Agency – AEI."