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Re:$200 retail whole genome sequencing now available by 88e282102ae2e5b on Thursday November 22, 2018 @11:50PM (#18514427)
Is there anything more to it than carving a piece of silica and ligating the adapters to the surface? I mean, I know the process is a bit more involved than that but the patents make it seem relatively straightforward.
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Re:$200 retail whole genome sequencing now available by CptFribble on Friday November 23, 2018 @02:10AM (#18514900)
It's straightforward in a conceptual sense, but as with most things there are a ton of gotchas and fiddly implementation details, especially if you're doing it in your kitchen/garage. A lot of the difficulty comes with the tedium of maintaining sterile conditions and lots and lots of pipetting.

If you're really interested in DIYBIO there are subreddits and many tuts out there, but fair warning: getting started is easy, but the devil is in the details a heck of a lot more than learning to code.

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