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ArticleArXiv2026

BEDCrypt: Privacy-preserving interval analytics with homomorphic encryption.

Kimon Antonios Provatas, Ilias Georgakopoulos-Soares

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Article in ArXiv, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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2 authors.

Kimon Antonios Provatas
Ilias Georgakopoulos-Soares

Funding

Harnessing the Power of Kmers: Concepts and Methods for Genomic and Proteomic ResearchR35GM155468 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN · PI Ilias Georgakopoulos-Soares · 2024 to 2026
$1.2M
NIGMS NIH HHS R35 GM155468
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Motivation: Genomic data and derived interval datasets can carry sensitive information, and the analysis itself can reveal an analyst's intent. As genomic workloads are increasingly outsourced to third-party infrastructure, there is a need for privacy-preserving technologies that protect both the data and the queried loci. Results: We present BEDCrypt, a privacy-preserving system for genomic interval analytics based on homomorphic encryption in an honest-but-curious server setting. The server operates only on encrypted data and returns encrypted answers that the client decrypts locally, enabling core functionalities such as coverage summaries, interval intersections, proximity (window-style) queries, and set-similarity statistics, without revealing plaintext intervals or query genomic locations to the server.

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PMID41810028
PMCPMC12970353

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