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- r3bl 11y agoI really don't see the relevance of this blog post. What's so important about this story to be shared here?
- ahmetbb 11y agoBeen watching this story rise since the beginning. No comments left, nobody pays attention, even the title is out of place (what is joinong a repo anyway??). I think there's some magic behind the points this is getting on HN. :-)
- br0_grammar 11y agoif they wanted to make microbiome data available they could just share some
- bonobo3000 11y agoHas anyone here derived actionable insight from their microbiome data? I sampled my gut and sure I can see its pretty far off from the average (e.g 51% Bacteroidetes compared to 22.5% average) but err so what? Google brought up a few studies related to microbiomes but there doesn't seem to be any real answer on what a "good" microbiome is, or how deviations from normal are linked to other diseases, how much is dependent on diet (a lot i would think).
- tridint 11y agoTo begin with, the reproducibility of your sample is in question - https://mrheisenbug.wordpress.com/2014/04/24/dear-american-gut-ubiome-you-have-some-explaining-to-do/ https://mrheisenbug.wordpress.com/2014/04/24/dear-american-g... The resolution from uBiome data is also 16s, and (likely) too low to yield good information. There is no definition of a good microbiome. The research is still in its infancy. Attempting to 'improve' your microbiome would likely be a mistake. The upside is that you may have contributed by paying uBiome.
- chaosfox 11y agoI don't think github (or even git) is ideal for raw data storage. https://help.github.com/articles/conditions-for-large-files/ https://help.github.com/articles/conditions-for-large-files/
- emdagon 11y agoActually, the repo isn't intended to store data whatsoever. It's for publishing tools (scripts mostly) anybody can use to peek into their own data (provided by uBiome).