A few years ago I signed up for a service called 23andme.com (Note: The referal code) It was neat, After I signed up, they sent me a quetip and a jar that I spit in to and mailed back to them, a month or two later they sent me the results. I played around with it for a few weeks before moving on to the next fascination. They also give you the option to download a picture of your DNA, one of the main reasons that I got the service. Yes I am that vain that I want a picture of my own DNA to hang on the wall!.
They just added a feature that allows you to download your RAW DNA as text file consists of lines of my genotype call data (your A’s, T’s, C’s and G’s). The file is huge!
I am wondering if you can think of any creative ways to visualize this data?
Beautiful! Is that visual a comparison of the percentage of base pairs? Love you have the data. If its totally raw I imagine there are some sequences in there that are instructive to your cellular machinery. It would be cool to visualize how much of your DNA is proprietary funvill software and how much is just human operating system...
OMG. That’s pretty awesome. Maybe a wire some LEDs up, assign them the
different letters of DNA, and as you go through the DNA have the
appropriate lights light up? Or maybe assign them tones?
Or make a wheeled robot, and have each letter be a direction. Then have
it travel a set amount for each letter – see where it ends up after
reading your DNA!
Or maybe just get a code library that’s good with dealing with genetic
data ( Perl’s got a good one – Perl’s strength is dealing with raw text
) and see if you can find the markers for any weird genetic stuff?
The data you’ve posted isnt really raw sequence data. Its a list of important single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNP’s). The coordinates are chromosome number, position and then two letters. The two letters are because you have two versions of each chromosome. You could certainly get your whole genome sequenced, but it would cost $1000 and give much more data.
