Tag: data

A technical account of what a comprehensive blood panel measures, what the CMP's 14 analytes do and don't tell you, and how to get from a panel of numbers to data you can analyze yourself.

A practical spec for buying whole-genome sequencing: coverage, library prep, file formats, the QC you should run yourself, and what WGS still misses.

A working guide to array genotyping versus whole-genome sequencing, the files you get, the tools to run on them, and the failure modes that make confident-looking results wrong.

You can run a nanopore sequencer on your kitchen table and get real reads, but you cannot get clinical-grade whole-genome coverage that way. Here is what home sequencing produces, what it costs, and where sending a sample out is the better call.