Is this the same guy behind https://iwantosequencemygenomeathome.com/ ?

[Edit: Apparently no. That link is by Seth Howes, who also shared the OP post though: https://x.com/SethSHowes/status/2074231119730430203 ]

It seems a bit odd to me to have a home lab for the sequencing and then feed it to a cloud LLM. I would have thought the point of the home lab is privacy.

It might make even more sense once we get to the point of a wider use of encoding the data into dna. For now we have these few commercial players in the field that cad do it (eg look up dna microfactory for storage archiving), IIRC genomika was saying they can do an MB for a 100-200eur.

How can I know if the the results I get are real or just some garbage?

> Oxford Nanopore Technologies MinION ($7.5k)

Hmm, I'll come back in a few years when things have become cheaper.

I like the privacy conscious aspects. Apart from the obvious issue of "run it through Claude" how many of those referenced analysis tools are entirely open source or at least run locally? Would have liked to see that in the article.

If the sequencer was 10x cheaper then I might do it.

I'm waiting for someone to make an open source gene sharing platform to rival ancestry etc in the future.

There must be some cool way to share enough structure with some cryptography to share parts of your dna to find relatives etc

Bringing everything to your doorstep and everything at your feet and everything near your fingertips is just what all industries are trying to accomplice. The cartoon Animation Wall-E has scenes in it where they show obese humans doing everything through a screen though notice their legs and feet and it's as if they've mutated to a point where they aren't able to walk anymore and all their transport is through a hovering chair cum bed.

With such cheap costs every city should be sequencing dog turds and sending out big fines. The pay back would be very quick.