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Re:23andMe's Fall from $6B to Nearly $0 by progbits on Wednesday January 31, 2024 @11:30AM (#39205745)
That seems like a service you send samples to.

I want to buy a machine, observe the whole process myself and then destroy/scrub the machine.

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Re:23andMe's Fall from $6B to Nearly $0 by stanford_labrat on Wednesday January 31, 2024 @11:57AM (#39206090)
If you really want to do this I would just do it like we do it in academic labs. Prep the DNA yourself and send to Illumina who will do the sequencing and send you the raw data.
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Re:23andMe's Fall from $6B to Nearly $0 by kleton on Wednesday January 31, 2024 @01:13PM (#39207262)
BGI does not sell the machines they reverse-engineered from Illumina. You can sometimes find old Illumina machines on ebay, or buy a new NovaSeq for a about a million.
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