1 25-WGS


1.1 Whole Genome Sequencing (WGS)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whole_genome_sequencing

1.2 Technology: High throughput squencers

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA_sequencing#High-throughput_methods

1.3 Direct To Consumer (DTC) medical testing

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laboratory_developed_test#Direct-to-consumer
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_testing#Direct-to-consumer_genetic_testing

1.4 Personalized medicine

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personalized_medicine

1.5 Personal Genomics and Geneology

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_genomics

1.6 Interpretation of genome data

This is the part that is contentious.
There has been much debate about whether people should be able to see their own data.
Many institutions have the stance that:
“People are not smart enough to interpret their own health data,
and could not possible know what is good for themselves.”
The American Medical Association, Wikipedia, and others enforce such policies:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/

1.7 Practical approaches

How to get and interpret personal direct-to-consumer (DTC) whole genome sequencing (WGS)?

1.7.1 Understand what you’re in for:

Chances are, at least several of you will find a major recessive disease,
and many others will see subtler negative association with SNPs present in your genomes.
One of the tenets of AI is that no rational agent can have too much information.
Are you a rational agent?
The above statement assumes the rational agent is the only one with the information,
and does not consider the value of others having such information.
Will these companies share your information; will they store it;
where are their servers; do they upload or mail you an SD card, etc.?

1.7.1.1 What are the benefits?

Your health, your childrens’ health, curiosity, research…

1.7.1.2 What are the costs?

Time, money, anxiety, discrimination, mis-interpretation leads to irrational behavior…

Choose whether you want to get sequencing.

1.7.2 If no, then

Get data from other people to explore!
https://www.personalgenomes.org
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_Genome_Project

1.7.3 If yes, then

See below:

1.7.3.1 Choose where to get sequencing and how much you want to pay.

https://isogg.org/wiki/List_of_DNA_testing_companies

Without physician involvement (recommended):
https://www.yseq.net/
Germany has better privacy than EU itself.

https://sequencing.com/

https://nebula.org

https://www.fullgenomes.com
Known compatible formats with interpretation tools, USA based lab,
has varying quality levels, depending on how much you want to pay.

https://us.dantelabs.com/
EU maybe better for privacy than US.

https://24genetics.com/en/whole-genome-sequencing
EU maybe better for privacy than US.

With physician involvement (not recommended):
http://www.genos.co/
http://www.suregenomics.com/
https://www.veritasgenetics.com/

1.7.3.2 Purchasing and medical privacy considerations

You can choose how much privacy emphasis you prefer.
If it is important to you that others not have your genome information,
then there are steps you can take (but you can just skip if that’s not important to you).
Discussed in class only, take notes or ask after class if you are interested.

1.7.4 Analyze and explore:

1.7.4.1 Clinical / functional / high-level reports

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1.7.4.2 Classic genome browsers

Local software
* IGV,Integrative Genomics Viewer by the Broad Institute; open source. http://software.broadinstitute.org/software/igv/
* IGB, Integrated Genome Browser from the University of North Caroline, Charlotte; open source. http://bioviz.org/igb/
* Artemis by the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute. One of the few browsers that can handle GenBank and EMBL formats! Open source. http://www.sanger.ac.uk/science/tools/artemis
* Tablet from the James Hutton Institute. Closed source? https://ics.hutton.ac.uk/tablet/
* SeqMonk A tool to visualise and analyse high throughput RNA-Seq alignments. Closed source? http://www.bioinformatics.babraham.ac.uk/projects/seqmonk/
* Samtools simple browser; open source. http://www.htslib.org/

Web-based
* UCSC Genome/Table Browser from the University of California at Santa Cruz. Open source. https://genome.ucsc.edu/ and then https://genome.ucsc.edu/cgi-bin/hgGateway
* Ensembl Genome Browser from the partnership of the European Bioinformatics Institute and the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute
* Run-your own web-server on localhost (isolated or anonymized if preferred)
* GBrowse: Generic Genome Browser a combination of database and interactive web pages for manipulating and displaying annotations on genomes. https://github.com/GMOD/GBrowse
* JBrowse an embeddable genome browser built completely with JavaScript and HTML5, with optional run-once data formatting tools written in Perl. http://jbrowse.org/
* GBiB: Genome Browser in a box is a “virtual machine” of the entire UCSC Genome Browser website that is designed to run on most PCs. An alternative to look into may be “track hubs”. https://genome.ucsc.edu/goldenpath/help/gbib.html

1.7.4.3 Hybrid classic / clinical:

Real-time genomic analysis, scientific and clinical reports.
http://iobio.io/

1.8 How to interpret your genome in detail

http://evidence.pgp-hms.org
* Using an example full genome (from George M Church)
* http://arep.med.harvard.edu/gmc/
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_M._Church
* https://my.pgp-hms.org/profile/hu43860C
* http://evidence.pgp-hms.org/genomes?display_genome_id=09b04be3309715d773b2a2789799f017ea27aa0e

https://www.promethease.com
* https://files.snpedia.com/reports/promethease_data/Genos_example1_ui2.html
https://opensnp.org/
* https://opensnp.org/genotypes

http://www.omim.org/ for more manual research on whatever you find, which links to UCSC genome browser

  1. Survey of the whole genome reports
  2. Go over several interesting SNPs in detail, reviewing all proof, papers, from which its interpretation is derived, and the format of the notation, etc
  3. Illustrate how to go into further detail using classic genome browsers, or further literature research

Discussion points
What % genes versus % environment is a phenotype?
E.g., intelligence?

Phenotype-genotype associations to review: