If it's an US-based lab, aren't they subject to CLIA with all its retention requirements?
replyFor $7.5k+ you get a guaranteed privacy (as other comments suggest, other properties may vary, but at least the data never leaves your home).
I suspect there is a deep sequencing service that is non CLIA and cheap. True. they may not be trustworthy with the data. That said, there are steps here where the data is put into Claude. Do we trust that ?
replyThat's another vector, and everyone considers separately. But at least here one can - hypothetically - have a BAA and zero-retention agreement with Anthropic. Which means they have moderately strong incentives to wipe your data after a fairly short while. CLIA, if I don't misremember, mandates a few years at minimum.
replyI would never trust that. Instead I would use Claude to teach me genomics and build the tools to process and interpret data locally
replyIt's not impossible: Claude can take care of bioinformatics part. But to understand genetics and cellular biology you need a knowledge foundation first.
replyUnless you just want it on a level "Does this mutation leads to a genetic disorder X" - this is a simple way to put it, but not enough to actually understand genetics.
haha. hubris thy name is tzumby.
replylook up what isaac asimov had to say about genomic analysis.
A service is not the same as the equipment
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