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Check out this series of articles from 2016 by Carl Zimmer [1]. He gets his genome sequenced by Illumina ($3100) and joins a medical study so that they'll give
by greeneggs 10y ago
Check out this series of articles from 2016 by Carl Zimmer [1]. He gets his genome sequenced by Illumina ($3100) and joins a medical study so that they'll give him the raw data. He gets the 70GB "BAM file" (Binary Alignment/Map) and passes it around to experts and they dig into it. Multiple weeks of computer time plus expert analysis---this is not a simple thing yet.
[1] https://www.statnews.com/feature/game-of-genomes/season-one/ https://www.statnews.com/feature/game-of-genomes/season-one/
[2] Supplementary materials to [1], https://zimmerome.gersteinlab.org/ https://zimmerome.gersteinlab.org/