Technically this isn't his entire genome - just SNPs.
(<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-nucleotide_polymorphism" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-nucleotide_polymorphism</a>)<p>One major problem with developing a "Google for the human genome" is that we don't actually understand how most of the genes (coding) and noncoding regions in our DNA actually work or interact with each other... except at a very basic level for a very limited set of genes.<p>There are genome browsers out there already that came out of the human genome project and work in that direction. One example: <a href="http://huref.jcvi.org/" rel="nofollow">http://huref.jcvi.org/</a>
A lot of the “aren’t you afraid that somebody is going to use that against you?" remarks are reminiscent of the early days of the internet, when people were afraid to put pictures of themselves or their contact info online. There's now a $50 billion dollar company dedicated to doing just that.
This thread is probably a good place to point to perhaps the best resource on the web for personal genomics today, the Genomes Unzipped blog <a href="http://www.genomesunzipped.org/" rel="nofollow">http://www.genomesunzipped.org/</a><p>The authors have not only released their genetic information into the public domain (<a href="http://www.genomesunzipped.org/data" rel="nofollow">http://www.genomesunzipped.org/data</a>), but also developed a custom genome browser (<a href="http://www.genomesunzipped.org/jbrowse" rel="nofollow">http://www.genomesunzipped.org/jbrowse</a>), have an API, and a github repo for code they will release (<a href="https://github.com/genomesunzipped/genomesunzipped" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/genomesunzipped/genomesunzipped</a>).<p>These are early days in personal genomics, so it's great to see others jumping in. Hopefully they all do so with some awareness, and folks like Genomes Unzipped do a great job in creating that awareness, and never forgetting that there is difficult, evolving science behind our understanding.
All we need now is a free compiler, to turn it into life-code that runs on the Universal machine...<p>Until that time agent-based modeling is the best we have :)
The Personal Genome Project [personalgenomes.org] is aiming to recruit 100,000 people to publicly release their DNA sequence and medical data. The website currently has phenotype and medical history data and genotyping data for the first ten participants who are all well-known scientist.
more genomes:<p>"These are the 57 public genomes. They are from real people who've chosen to share their data to help all of us learn more about our genomes."<p><a href="http://www.snpedia.com/index.php/Genomes" rel="nofollow">http://www.snpedia.com/index.php/Genomes</a>