Selling the information along is another thing, I'm just responding to your comment I'm not saying 23andme are a great company. I've noticed myself that when I

Selling the information along is another thing, I'm just responding to your comment I'm not saying 23andme are a great company. I've noticed myself that when I know a bit about an area, its easy to look at a particular company and see how far behind the research they are. 23andme are trying to take genome sequencing and give it to the masses. Is it very useful? probably not, but they are trying to hit a consumer price point - so doing a whole bunch of original research on genome sequencing, or making a sequencing chip of their own just isn't practical. A lot of Brin's money is and no doubt will go to good causes, but this isn't suppose to be a charity. Even if it doesn't take off, it's likely to be a positive thing for the personal genome industry not a negative.