How to sequence your own DNA at home

How to sequence your own DNA at home(bradleywoolf.com)

72 points by bilsbie 2 hours ago | 17 comments

munib_ca 35 minutes ago |

> This is intended to be read by AI- please just copy and paste the URL of this and have ChatGPT walk you through it. If you have AR glasses, even better, since the AI can walk you through the whole protocol.

What kind of magic is going on here, am I missing something?

Aurornis 2 hours 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 1 hour ago |

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

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

drdaeman 1 hour 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).

vibrio 1 hour ago | | |

I suspect there is a deep sequencing service that is non CLIA and cheap. True. they may not be trustworthy with the data. That said, there are steps here where the data is put into Claude. Do we trust that ?

dwa3592 1 hour ago |

This is so cool. Thanks for doing this. The fact that we have this in a palm sized object is just crazy. Also, if/when we have a similar sized device for doing CRISPR .... umm i should stop here - it's becoming the plot of Gattaca

whatever1 2 hours 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 1 hour 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 1 hour 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 1 hour ago | |

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

bleepblap 1 hour ago |

> This is intended to be read by AI

Fuck this

tclancy 24 minutes ago | |

Man, doctors thought they had it bad before. For just a six yards I can play Peter Thiel at home! $6k invested so I can set an AI in YOLO mode to tell me I have some hyper-specific version of kennel cough?

“But that occurs in dogs?”

“You’re right. Let me look into actual gene sequencing instead of just guessing. I think the N is the load bearing letter.”

asveikau 1 hour ago | |

Yeah that's weird. The instructions are not even hard to read. I don't understand what an LLM would add to this.

SuperSixFour 1 hour ago | |

Literally left the article to come here and say this.

metalman 1 hour ago |

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

dekhn 1 hour ago | |

Nothing about this is the future. Sequencing at home will not solve any major problems. It's mainly a fun exercise to demonstrate that sequencing has been commodified.