About
From the data side, not the medical side
I am an IT engineer. I ended up learning this field from the ground up after working on the development and build-out of a genetic analysis system for a project. So I came in from the data side rather than the medical side.
Since then I have worked with whole-genome data from more than two hundred people — running analyses, preparing reports, and explaining them.
The field is dense with jargon and with phrasings peculiar to it. Anyone meeting it for the first time and trying to work through it alone will spend a long time doing so. And if all you take away is one legible line like “essentially no alcohol tolerance,” you have used the surface of data that cost you months and a considerable sum to obtain.
It takes a while, but working through the steps does make it readable. What I want to hand over is that way of reading.
I do not diagnose. What I do is make visible what your data holds, and how it is structured.
Where I stand
I am not a physician and I am not a healthcare professional. I therefore cannot assess your state of health or recommend anything to you, and I do not.
What I can do is make the structure of the data plain, and pass on how to read it. If you have concerns about your health, please consult a medical institution, whatever the reading shows.
Aside
Most days I am brewing tea in one Asian city or another. Tea and genomes look like entirely separate subjects, but I suspect both come down to the same thing: making visible what is actually going on.