How to sequence your own DNA at home

28 points | by bilsbie an hour ago

9 comments

  • Aurornis 40 minutes ago

    I wish this had some discussion of the results. The earlier reports about this sensor and process were very mixed. It’s a cool process either way, but I’d like to know how usable the real world output can be.

  • mephux 19 minutes ago

    https://www.the-odin.com/whole-genome-sequencing-30x/

    If you want it quick and cheap(er) - 599.00

      drdaeman 11 minutes ago

      If it's an US-based lab, aren't they subject to CLIA with all its retention requirements?

      For $7.5k+ you get a guaranteed privacy (as other comments suggest, other properties may vary, but at least the data never leaves your home).

  • whatever1 36 minutes ago

    What is the accuracy in this ? Aka if I run the experiment 10 times how many differences will i get? I don’t have a physical sense on what would be a good number.

      myhf 13 minutes ago

      You would get a lot of differences, but the errors would cancel each other out with enough depth of coverage.

      This technology's baseline accuracy is around 95% per base, so 10x reads of every segment in the sample would give >99% accuracy for each base after aligning the reads with each other.

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coverage_(genetics)

        Jules-Bertholet 9 minutes ago

        > so 10x reads of every segment in the sample would give >99% accuracy for each base after aligning the reads with each other

        This assumes random errors, which IIRC isn't the case for Oxford Nanopore.

      Jules-Bertholet 10 minutes ago

      Oxford Nanopore unfortunately has a high error rate (3-5%) compared to other sequencing technologies. And the errors are non-random

  • metalman 13 minutes ago

    I am very impressed with the, why wait? just do it now approach to the future. which while not here, IS there.

  • bleepblap 16 minutes ago

    > This is intended to be read by AI

    Fuck this