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Cheaper DNA tests

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Which sounds better £46 or £115.83?

Now the NMRM Corp tie-in with DNA-WPR*, you need only take a swab, send the sample to a lab in Knoxville, Tenn. and have peace of mind!!!

Later edit - Ah, I forgot to include the actual point of the idea. It's expensive to get DNA tests for ancestry websites, so this might be a cheap way to do it.

(exchange rates are a ruff calculation)

(*DNA World Pet Registry)

not_morrison_rm, Feb 20 2019

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       There's an even cheaper way. Just walk into any police station and say "I'd just like to mention that I was in no way involved in this recent spate of murders", and they'll have you profiled in no time.
MaxwellBuchanan, Feb 20 2019
  

       Full genome? The police have enough paperwork.
wjt, Feb 20 2019
  

       Probably not, but then again dog testing kits only cover a fraction of the [canine] genome.
MaxwellBuchanan, Feb 21 2019
  

       Ah, I forgot to include the actual point of the idea. It's expensive to get DNA tests for ancestry websites, so this might be a cheap way to do it.   

       But, finding out me and Lassie have 57 points of congruence isn't really that useful.
not_morrison_rm, Feb 21 2019
  

       Yeah, life's a bitch ...
8th of 7, Feb 21 2019
  

       I was dreaming we can get a better price and speed by getting an uncoiled chromatid to flow, in a microfluidic channel , past a reader section, measuring the nucleotide cogs. Attaching a large molecule to one end of the chromatid and by using gravity, might 'train' it's length down a column through some sort of base discriminating sensor. Position and base relative to the chromatid would be maintained.
wjt, Feb 21 2019
  

       Measuring the cogs is the hard part. However, Oxford Nanopore's execrable technology sort of does this (though not for whole chromosomes, and with abysmally low accuracy).
MaxwellBuchanan, Feb 21 2019
  

       After a cursory look, my initial feeling is the electronic state of the nanopore needs to be known more accurately to get a better read. I suggest, some molecular groups attached to the nanopore with their own reading layer to help with the a baseline. Just more data to get a better look.   

       The positional charges on the DNA atoms would be variable within a range , would they not?
wjt, Feb 23 2019
  

       The problem with nanopore sequencing is that the pore is several nucleotides long. Hence, the signal at any instant is sort of averaged over several bases.
MaxwellBuchanan, Feb 23 2019
  

       What happens when I get the results and it shows I'm prone to hard pad?
not_morrison_rm, Feb 23 2019
  

       [not_morrison_rm] Nothing a good soak/whiskey can't fix but check your not feeling an ill temper.   

       [Max]Is several still small enough to be listed? It is interesting trying to read a changing section of a flow to try and determine subunits. I did have another wonder, whether light or another energy form could used lightly to condition the read environment so the nucleotides have a more determining signal.
wjt, Feb 23 2019
  

       // several still small enough to be listed?// I think it's something like 5 or 10. You can recover sequence data, but the raw error rate is something horrendous like 10%, which makes it useless for many applications.   

       //whether light or another energy form could used lightly to condition the read environment so the nucleotides have a more determining signal// I have no idea what that means.
MaxwellBuchanan, Feb 23 2019
  

       Doesn't the signal have to range more widely and cleanly to remove raw read errors? chilling a magnet will will give a stronger field.   

       Is there a way of accentuating the charges to give a better resolve? Make the strand flow through an environmental change to which each base reacts with a stronger difference to compared to the others. Magnetism, light field, temperature. It would be good if it was like a photocopier, impart charge to strand, print it off at sensor.   

       I must say, great work having a mechanism that can capture a strand and flow it's long length through an known volumetric space. It's just a matter of time before the reader becomes accurate enough.
wjt, Feb 24 2019
  

       //accentuating the charges// it's not based on charge per se. Instead, they measure the current flowing through the pore; that current is reduced by the DNA, and the amount of reduction depends on which bases are in the pore.
MaxwellBuchanan, Feb 24 2019
  

       So its all about the base?   

       Doesn't seem like any treble at all, then.
RayfordSteele, Feb 24 2019
  

       There's only 10% tremble when the DNA rubs off with some of the charge.   

       I still think, because of DNA's sole purpose, a near 100% accurate read should be possible.   

       My hope is for a stack of carbon nanosheets that can have a multiple reads as the DNA spirals through even though base gap is 0.34 nm or 3.4 Å and carbon sheets range from 1 to 100nm plus insulator distance. Theoretically the gap between reader sheets should not matter.   

       Though if the animal DNA full genome sequence price drops I will use that.
wjt, Feb 25 2019
  
      
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