[Noisebridge-discuss] [Fwd: [gfaf] 23andme - $99 today]

[Glen Jarvis]

This is the kind of stuff that my lab works on (I work at a UC Berkeley
Bioinformatic lab) -- it really is interesting stuff.. I can certainly join
with others and do a small workshop at noisebridge if anyone is interested

Glen

On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 11:54 AM, Mikolaj Habryn <dichro at rcpt.to> wrote:

> The 23andMe service has been getting slowly more interesting, but the
> killer app of this whole thing is downloading your raw data and feeding it
> through snpedia.com - I give you
> http://www.snpedia.com/index.php/User:Dichro as an example, although you
> don't have to surrender your own details to get similar results. There's a
> downloadable python program which will tediously compare every SNP in your
> raw data against the research reports that snpedia has collated and give you
> (generally terrible) synopses and links to further data. It's brilliant.
>
> m.
>
>
> On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 12:11 PM, Rachel McConnell <rachel at xtreme.com>wrote:
>
>> This does seem to be the prices listed on the website.
>>
>> -------- Original Message --------
>> if you're a tech-obsessed geek (i'm totally not one. oh wait...), and you
>> don't mind giving away whatever shred of privacy is left in our
>> post-facebook post-blippy world, you might be interested to know that
>> 23andme is selling their Complete Edition kits today for only $99 instead
>> of
>> $499 (!) in honor of "DNA Day".
>>
>> anyways, $99 is probably what their service is actually worth (and i just
>> don't see enough 80% discounts lately), so you should totally get this
>> thing, and then we can exchange comments about whatever vague genetic
>> tea-leaves are read by their processing of your saliva:
>>
>> https://www.23andme.com/
>>
>> <https://www.23andme.com/> - andy (former genetic sequencer, human genome
>> project)
>>
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