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Why you CAN have your $1000 genome – so long as you learn what to do with it
Posted by Daniel MacArthur on January 7, 2011 As part of his Gene Week celebration over at Forbes, Matthew Herper has a provocative post titled “Why you can’t have your $1000 genome“. In this post I’ll explain why, while Herper’s pessimism is absolutely justified for genomes produced in a medical setting, I’m confident that I’ll be obtaining my own near-$1000 genome in the…
Why I’m releasing my genetic data online
Posted by Daniel MacArthur on October 12, 2010 Back in June I launched a new blog, Genomes Unzipped, together with a group of colleagues and friends with expertise in various areas of genetics. At the time I made a rather cryptic comment about “planning much bigger things for the site over the next few months”. Today I announced what I meant by that:…
DIY ancestry inference from personal genomic data
Posted by Daniel MacArthur on November 18, 2009 European Genetics and Anthropology has a neat little tutorial that may be of interest for genetic hobbyists: it provides instructions on how to run the program STRUCTURE on your own genetic data generated by a personal genomics company such as 23andMe or deCODEme. STRUCTURE is an extremely popular tool among researchers working in population genetics,…