Fwd: [Noisebridge-discuss] Sequence your personal microbiome

[Rikke Rasmussen]

Seems there's a couple of these happening at the moment.

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From: "Jessica Richman" <jessica...@gmail.com>
Date: Nov 16, 2012 9:08 PM
Subject: [Noisebridge-discuss] Sequence your personal microbiome
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In news of cool projects from Noisebridge members...

uBiome just launched the world's first service to sequence your microbiome at www.indiegogo.com/ubiome  Personal microbiome sequencing will help you understand how your lifestyle, diet and medications affect your body, and empower you to take control of your health. We've already been covered in Wired and VentureBeat (see below).

The human microbiome consists primarily of beneficial microbes that inhabit the human body. The human microbiome may be as important as the human genome to our health, but unlike the human genome, the microbiome can be easily changed. Recent publications from Scientific American and Wired to the NYT and the Economist have pointed out the startling discoveries that can be learned about ourselves from the microbiome. uBiome brings this cutting edge technology directly to consumers.  The more data we gather, the more we learn.

Support us at www.indiegogo.com/ubiome and help SCIENCE!

Links:

http://venturebeat.com/2012/11/16/ubiome-launch/

http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2012/11/ubiome/

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[Patrik D'haeseleer]

There's also the "American Gut" project on IndieGogo:

http://www.indiegogo.com/americangut

They're a little more expensive ($99 for a one-sample kit), but it's run by Rob Knight, who I consider to be the foremost authority on human microbiome analysis in the world.

Either one sounds really exciting, but it'll be the amount of sequencing per sample, the quality of the analysis, and the number of samples in the study that will make all the difference.

Patrik