I did a tip of the week on SNPTips a few months ago (more information there). It’s a great addon to view your genomic data while browsing databases and web sites. They’ve moved to version 1.1. There are two nice new features and some bug fixes. The features are: *You can now use your deCODEme [...]
1,000 dollars to sequence the entire 3 billion ‘basepair’ long human genome is the holy grail. Last year, on this blog, I predicted that we’d reach that goal ‘within a year’. Well, it’s been a year and we aren’t there. I did hedge a bit in the comments later, but the main point was that [...]
Last night I had a fun conversation with some non-scientists on personal genomics. A lot of my conversations on this topic are “inside baseball” with people who know the field (and the minefields) really well. So it’s fun for me to explore the larger social and ethical issues with people who are just beginning to [...]
*while supplies last, plus 9 dollars a month for one year. 23andme is having a sale (again, I did our family’s scan when it went down to 100 late last year). This time the up front cost is $0. Of course you have to pay for shipping and the 9/month fee for updates (for one [...]
Today’s tip of the week is on SNPTips. We had a guest post on this earlier. We usually do tips on databases and analysis tools, but after getting our 23andme data, we’ve been using SNPTips often and thought it might be of use to some of our readers. SNPTips was created by 5am Solutions for [...]
So, as a lot of people, I received my family’s 23andme results yesterday. Well, 3 of 4. Our youngest daughter’s spit apparently has little DNA, she had to spit again. Her results are to come later. As I mentioned in earlier posts, I wasn’t planning to be surprised of my own or my husband’s results. [...]
Many years ago, and in another lifetime it seems, I was fascinated by my genealogy. I was a Mormon which made genealogy part of a religious duty, but I also found my early-American settler, German and Native American heritage fascinating. Due to Ph.D. studies, a marriage and two children, I stopped delving into my genealogy over twenty years ago. [...]
Andrew Evans – Sr. Information Architect and blogger at 5AM Solutions, Inc. This blog post is also published at http://blog.5amsolutions.com/ When I became a customer of the 23andMe personal genomics service back in 2008, I remember the sense of awe I had when I opened up the raw data file for the first time and looked [...]
23andme came out with their poetry winners today. Robert Frost is one of my favorite poets, so of course I do love this winner: The Haplogroup Not Taken by Robin Goldstein (with deepest apologies to Robert Frost) Two SNPs diverged in a Chromosome and wonder I the meaning thus A lifelong need for brush and [...]
Welcome to our Friday feature link collection: SNPpets. During the week we come across a lot of links and reads that we think are interesting, but don’t make it to a blog post. Here they are for your enjoyment… Galaxy users in San Diego–check out this note about upcoming opportunity to talk w/ Galaxy dev: [...]
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