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What is ancestry?

This is a modified version of a blog post I initially wrote two years ago. With the increasing interest in genetic ancestry testing over these two years, the question “What is ancestry?” is worth keeping in mind.


Sequencing the world’s first vegan hamburger

tl;dr: we see DNA sequences from plants, yeast, and bacteria.

When you submitted your Seeq sample to be sequenced (not sequenced yet? Get the app here!), you probably noticed a question at the end of the instructions: “What…


Start a human genomics project with a few lines of code

This post is by Tomaz Berisa and Joe Pickrell.

Here they are (in python, after installing the open source seeq package):

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