Genomic Data Literacy
Learn to read your own genome.
I do not run the analysis for you. I teach you the procedure for reading the data yourself. Your files stay with you — I never take custody of them.
Where this starts
You had your genome sequenced. The report came back, you read it, and you still could not say what it told you about yourself — or what to do with the file now sitting on your drive. A lot of people stop right there.
A screen full of gene symbols does not explain itself, and a column that says nothing more than “low activity” is not much better. The data file is often large enough that opening it feels like a project of its own. Information collected from you, about you, sitting there unread.
What follows is how to open it — one step at a time.
Recent notes
All notes- 2026.08 Which table decided that phenotype? The genotype is in your data. The phenotype is not — it comes from an external published table that maps one to the other. So write down which table, and which version, you consulted.
- 2026.08 Sorting "nothing came up" into three The rsID you were looking for is absent from your results. Was it the same as the reference, was the position never read, or is it a kind this method cannot read at all? All three look like "no match" and none of them mean the same thing.
- 2026.08 In your population, that variant may be ordinary Rarity flips depending on which population you measure it against. Decide in advance where your frequencies come from, and "rare, therefore a weakness" stops being a reading you can make by accident.
Getting in touch
If you want to work through your own data yourself, I teach the procedure one-to-one. Tell me what format your data is in and how far you want to take it, and I will map out the steps involved.
I do not run the analysis for you, and I do not take custody of your data. Correspondence is available in English or Japanese.