Science AMA Series: We are Yaniv Erlich and Joe Pickrell, researchers
building tools like DNA.Land to help you unlock your genome. Ask us
anything!
Abstract
Hello Reddit! We are: Yaniv Erlich: Professor of computer science at
Columbia University and the New York Genome Center Joe Pickrell:
Professor of biology at Columbia University and the New York Genome
Center We develop new, fun ways to analyze genetic data, which we use to
understand aspects of genetic privacy, infer ancient history, improve
medicine, and much more. More importantly, we want these tools to be
available to everyone, including you. If you have your personal genome
data, you can sign up at DNA.Land to contribute to research and learn
more about your DNA. If you don’t have your data, you can sign up to get
sequenced by our project Seeq. We’re here from at least 1pm-3pm EDT (10
am PST, 6 pm UTC) to answer questions about our studies and about
genomics in general! Ask us anything! EDIT: Thanks so much for all the
questions, this was a lot of fun! If you’re in NY, come chat more at our
free DNA.Land user group meeting next month!