Posting Your Genes on the Web

You can read more about the project here. Also there is another up and coming company in California who will bring the price down even more.

Dr. Halamka of Harvard/Beth Israel Hospital (aka Life as a Healthcare CIO) was kind enough to post some of the interpretations of his own. You can read more here and visit his blog. He’s also the only one I have seen on the web to admit being “chipped” with his medial records.

You can fill out an application at the site to see if you are accepted, but you will need to make your information publicly available as well. BD

Participants include Harvard psychology professor Steven Pinker, technology investor Esther Dyson; John Halamka, chief information officer at Boston’s Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, and Rosalynn Gill, a founder of the Colorado personal-genetics company Sciona.

It’s all part of the Personal Genome Project, an effort in which members of the public release their genome sequence and other personal details for the sake of scientific advancement. The project is trying to recruit 100,000 people to participate.