Sometimes I do not understand HN.
There is the original post of the guy that posted his DNA on github.com (with the link of course) and a decent discussion on<p><a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2211334" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2211334</a><p>(5 hours ago)<p>and still this post is the most upvoted
If only we could truly activate <i>noprocrast mode</i> in our genetic code by simply changing 3 base pairs...<p>Imagine how much money the people who discovered it would end up making!
I don't see why Github couldn't be used to version track actual genomes of engineered small organisms... It would be great, you could curate changes that are 'virtual', changes that have been made, tested, and validated.
Maybe "genome" should be replaced by "a part of his genome".<p>For more information about the raw format used by 23 and Me: <a href="http://www.snpedia.com/index.php/23andMe" rel="nofollow">http://www.snpedia.com/index.php/23andMe</a>
This guy made real changes to the genome: <a href="https://github.com/cariaso/dna" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/cariaso/dna</a><p>ie: removed increased risk of coronary artery disease at rs1333049<p>Pretty awesome
ignorance is bliss, i had to look this up since i use mercurial.<p><a href="http://help.github.com/pull-requests/" rel="nofollow">http://help.github.com/pull-requests/</a><p>makes sense now, pretty funny comment about the nipple.
I find those commits to be more fun (because they seem to be real thing): <a href="https://github.com/cariaso/dna/commits/" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/cariaso/dna/commits/</a>
There's a huge difference between releasing his fully sequenced dna and the data from a genotyping chip.... I went to the github site expecting to see several large fasta files for each chromosome.