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Nebula is definitely an interesting entry into the market. There's also Dante Labs[0], which often offers 30x whole genome in the 200-300USD range. You can down
by anderspitman 6y ago
Nebula is definitely an interesting entry into the market. There's also Dante Labs[0], which often offers 30x whole genome in the 200-300USD range. You can download all your raw data (including FASTQs, h37-aligned BAMs, and VCFs) from AWS. There are some quality concerns (and they use BGI instead of Illumina sequencers), but at that price it's tempting to do Dante and Nebula as a check on each other.
Dante also has what seems like a pretty good privacy policy, including an option to destroy your saliva sample and delete all your data[1]. Obviously you still have to trust them, but it's a step in the right direction.
There's a good Facebook group for customers of both Dante and Nebula[2].
[0]: https://www.dantelabs.com/ https://www.dantelabs.com/
[1]: https://us.dantelabs.com/pages/privacy-policy https://us.dantelabs.com/pages/privacy-policy
[2]: https://www.facebook.com/groups/373644229897409/ https://www.facebook.com/groups/373644229897409/
- kbenson 6y ago> including an option to destroy your saliva sample Until I read that sentence, it honestly never occurred to me they would keep that around. The data, sure. Biological samples? I just assumed they would be disposed of after use.
- andrewem 6y agoA sample can be used for multiple analyses. For instance, a customer might pay for autosomal DNA analysis and later want to pay extra for mitochondrial DNA analysis. If the sample has been destroyed, no problem just send in a new sample - unless the subject has died in the meantime.
- FreeTrade 6y agoCollect it all.
- philsnow 6y agoNo reason to discard it, better sequencers are always around the corner
- Figs 6y agoEver heard of HeLa cells? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HeLa https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HeLa
- jcims 6y agoRadioLab did a great episode on Henrietta's story https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/segments/91716-henriettas-tumor https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/segments/91716...
- bredren 6y agoIs it strange to suggest discussing anything on Facebook, given how little privacy is afforded to users? I find it just a bit weird that products that customers recognize require privacy as a core tenant would also just head on over to Facebook to add new, targeted meta to their verified Facebook profile.
- chrisweekly 6y agoagreed w your observation; yes it's strange / weird, almost unfathomable. also, in a genuinely non-pedantic, "aiming to help and educate, not nitpick" way, may I offer this tidbit: tenant: legal inhabitant / renter / occupant tenet: principle or belief