Will try to keep self-interested product placement to a minimum normally, but I thought I’d pass on that Helix has a $100 off sale for the next 72 hours. That means that the company I work for has a Neanderthal app on sale for $9.99. The regular price is $29.99, and added $80.00 for exome+ sequencing if you aren’t in the Helix database (which most people are not).
The upshot here is that the $9.99 will get you an exome+ sequence, which at some point in early 2018 you can download for $600. But if you don’t want to download it it’s a great way to get into the ecosystem on-the-cheap.
I assume most of my readers know what the exome is, but it’s basically the portion of your genome which is directly translated into functional proteins. That’s about ~1% of the genome, or ~30,000,000 bases. This is a major expansion on the SNP-chip platforms which are DTC which are in the 500,000 to 1,000,000 SNP range.
Anyway, not sure this will be appealing to readers who need a full download of data. But if you are the type who is more interested in getting applications related to your genome, this is a pretty good deal at a sub-$10 price point.
Note: To my knowledge only ships to USA currently.