Illumina delivers its first commercial personal genome sequence
Quotes from a blog post on Genetic Future: Sequencing giant Illumina has announced that it has delivered its first commercial personal genome sequence. The sequence was generated by the genome sequencing service launched by Illumina back in June, and was delivered in collaboration with new personal genomics company Pathway Genomics. Illumina’s genome sequencing service costs [...]
Family Tree DNA discounts
Do you subscribe to the email newsletter Facts and Genes? If not, I recommenend subscribing here. You don’t have to be a FTDNA customer to subscribe, and the newsletter is filled with useful and interesting articles. Also, it lists FTDNA’s current discounts. I’ll list them here for folks who are not subscribed: Deep Clade Sale [...]
What do you get when you join 23andMe?
You get a plain brown box. And inside that box is…a smaller box! And inside that box is: instructions, the test tube for your saliva, and a prepaid envelope to send it back to 23and Me. The instructions say “You must register this kit before using it.” I already had an account, so this step [...]
