How to Sequence Your Own DNA at Home with Oxford Nanopore MinION
I have successfully sequenced my own genome five times using the Oxford Nanopore Technologies MinION device. This guide details the hardware, reagents, and step-by-step protocol needed to extract cheek cells and analyze your DNA at home. While currently expensive, I believe costs will drop exponentially, eventually allowing us to query our genetic data and RNA expression in real-time for personalized health insights.
The information produced is not yet diagnosis-level, and it is definitely not edit yourself with CRISPR because an AI said so.
- jdmoreira
I don't want to sequence at home.
But I do want to sequence it using a third-party that gives me all the raw data. I live in Europe and I'm just a simple consumer. Does anyone know how I can do this? What service would I use / you can recommend?
Them not keeping it on their side would be a huge bonus of course but not sure I can ask for that much.
- munib_ca
> This is intended to be read by AI- please just copy and paste the URL of this and have ChatGPT walk you through it. If you have AR glasses, even better, since the AI can walk you through the whole protocol.
What kind of magic is going on here, am I missing something?
- __MatrixMan__
I've bee thinking about starting a company where I fish roots out of your sewer and identify the plant (by sequence if necessary) that you have to kill so your sewer doesn't collapse as soon as it otherwise would.
$100 to stave off that $10000 sewer replacement for a few years would be worth it to a lot of people
- Aurornis
I wish this had some discussion of the results. The earlier reports about this sensor and process were very mixed. It’s a cool process either way, but I’d like to know how usable the real world output can be.
- mephux
https://www.the-odin.com/whole-genome-sequencing-30x/
If you want it quick and cheap(er) - 599.00
- dwa3592
This is so cool. Thanks for doing this. The fact that we have this in a palm sized object is just crazy. Also, if/when we have a similar sized device for doing CRISPR .... umm i should stop here - it's becoming the plot of Gattaca
- NoSalt
I want to sequence, but I absolutely do not want any company or government or church to have access to my data. When the author says:
> "I have a VCF, I can run it through tools like VEP, ClinVar, gnomAD, PharmGKB (highly recommend), Gene Inspector, or Claude"
I am assuming my data is now within the hands of some of the very entities I do not want to have access to my data ... true?
- SilentM68
Reminds me of the Gloing Plant Project.
I never got my glowing flower but would have settled for the instruction manual, also never created :(
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glowing_Plant_project
By the by, can't seen to bring up the actual site linked on this post.