Boolean Biotech

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One of the minor irritations in my life is that OCR does not consistently work for biological sequences (nucleic acids and proteins).

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Oral microbiome sequencing after taking probiotics

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Recently, a friend recommended BioGaia Prodentis to me. It is a DTC oral probiotic you can buy online that is supposedly good for oral health. I thought it would be interesting to do some sequencing to see what, if anything, it did to my oral microbiome.

How to sequence your genome at home

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In this post I'll describe how to sequence a human genome at home, something that's only recently become possible.