Home lab, or even be able to sequence your genome at home, privately and securely without risking giving your genetic information to companies like 23andme
Forgive me, I'm just totally ignorant here. In order to sequence your own genome and do something like 23andme, I kinda just guessed that you'd need some kind of existing corpus and database to derive meaning from the results.
Is that true? And if so, is it all open source or free?
It's something that's kind of interesting to me. I really enjoyed biotech and chemistry in HS but ended up going in a different direction. If this is something that you can just get into now as a hobby maybe I'll jump down the rabbithole
Nearly everything in this space is OSS. From the aligners to the assembly and the databases.
Last I checked 23andMe didn't perform whole genome sequencing but looked at some number of point mutations. It depends on what information you want. Eg for the sake of interest of actional genomics data.
potsandpans|2 years ago
Is that true? And if so, is it all open source or free?
It's something that's kind of interesting to me. I really enjoyed biotech and chemistry in HS but ended up going in a different direction. If this is something that you can just get into now as a hobby maybe I'll jump down the rabbithole
greazy|2 years ago
Last I checked 23andMe didn't perform whole genome sequencing but looked at some number of point mutations. It depends on what information you want. Eg for the sake of interest of actional genomics data.