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0 pointsglofish3y ago0 comments

and you will learn almost nothing from sequencing and studying your own genome

at best you waste your time, at worst you will find all kinds of things that are not there

it is the Silicon Valley hacker mentality that thinks the life is some sort of computer where you can fiddle with parameters

learn some biology first, then you can marvel at it and realize just how absurdly simplistic is to think you can read anything out of some random letter

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conradev3y ago

I am not out here reading SNPs like tarot cards.

I wanted to play around with BAM files and it is much more engaging to play around with my own BAM file versus downloading one from a website.

It is also about data ownership. The value of a fully sequenced genome is limited, sure, but I still want that value without having to give my genomic data to 23andMe.

ackbar033y ago

> and you will learn almost nothing from sequencing and studying your own genome

But Dante labs sure will!

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