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Issues with source code access aside, your description is mostly wrong. These programs take a DNA profile as input- it's just that the DNA profile is mixed (i.e. from multiple peop…

As far as I'm aware pathogens in meat aren't the main issue- it's the compounds formed when the meat is cooked. https://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/causes-prevention/risk/d... Fish…

> If so, why didn’t the employees change jobs? Monosopy.

The forensic field moves very slowly in adopting new technology since they have to do a lot of re-validation every time anything changes. This idea already here, but with technolog…

It may be millions of units by now- it was 1M about 2 years ago ( https://www.genomeweb.com/microarrays-multiplexing/1m-custom... ). Minor nitpicking: the 23andMe kits use microarr…

To add to your points, a very important consideration is that charter schools can game the metrics by forcing out students who aren't performing well, while public schools can't tu…

The Sanger/TCGA (The Cancer Genome Atlas) stuff seems to be specific to microarray data which is different (older, more expensive) than the newer high-throughput data. The figure y…

plus a special sauce for counting the number of specific bp repeats, due to in-del events, this is not something I am not too familiar, but presumably the number of a specific k-me…