Apple is collaborating with a couple of facilities to create apps that would gather and organize users’ DNA data, according to the report from MIT’s Technology Review.

The apps, based on Apple’s ResearchKit platform, will “offer some iPhone owners the chance to get their DNA tested, many of them for the first time.” As part of the project, the Cupertino giant and its partners will be urging users to send in a saliva sample, which will be used to create the DNA data. These samples would be sequenced at either the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) or Mount Sinai Hospital in New York.

The DNA data would then be combined with other information gathered by the iPhone or perhaps the Apple Watch, and certain findings could be available to the users through the Health app. The hope is that the combined information could help doctors make better treatments for patients.

It is said that the new DNA apps could be unveiled at the upcoming Worldwide Developers Conference in June, effectively establishing Apple as one of the players in the precision medicine market.

[Via: VentureBeat]