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grue@lemmy.world 1 week agoThis thread made me look into the idea of DIYing it, and one of the search results I found looks like legitimately is about actually doing the sequencing yourself:
techcrunch.com/…/citizen-scientists-you-can-now-d…
$800 in 2016 was steep enough, but at the $1600 it apparently costs today I’m not sure it’s still within the realm of DIY, if it ever really was. I wonder if there are any cheaper competitors?
phdepressed@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
That allows visualization of PCRed product, which is a far cry from whole genome sequencing. You can visualize a target at a time with no sequence info. Using it for sequences would be extremely tedious and require a lot of runs.
Lemminary@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Yup, I used to do PCR genotyping. 50 samples running the same setup would take me a whole 12-hour day at my lower end lab.
I can’t imagine having to do 50 different ones with 50 different templates and having to adjust each one. 😅
phdepressed@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
About 25,000 coding sequences and a lot more non-coding.