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Just to be clear, we are not ourselves working on private home sequencing. I'm aware of people working on at-home devices but that is not our own approach. We are just working on a…

Thanks! And, yes, exactly..MPC can be a boon for such data sharing.

I think I understand what you’re saying. We’re focusing on an incremental improvement. There are people actively working on private home sequencing, at home analysis devices, etc a…

Let people get their DNA sequenced without giving up anonymity or privacy. Let people benefit from DNA data analysis without the data leaving their device or sphere of control. Let…

The idea is to create an incentive or altruistic mechanism for people to contribute their data without losing anonymity and privacy.

Not our lab. We simply aggregate the anonymous samples and then work with third party accredited labs.

We have shown that we can batch user samples and then send them anonymously to the lab. Users can then use an MPC protocol to securely fetch their data without losing anonymity. We…

You're right, most analyses are done using biobanks, etc right now. The sentence is an oversimplification but people still implicitly contribute their data to insecure and centrali…

There are many motivations for consumer genomics and they might pick up further. https://vishakh.blog/2025/07/08/using-mpc-for-anonymous-and-... If you look at a previous experimen…

Hi, I’m a member of the Monadic DNA team. This post describes a local-first approach to personal genomics. Large-scale analysis (processing raw genotype data against the GWAS Catal…

A privacy-first genomics tool that lets you explore hundreds of thousands of genetic traits from GWAS Catalog data and analyze your genetic information entirely in your browser, wi…

I'm building Monadic DNA explorer, a tool to explore thousands of genetic traits from GWAS Catalog in your browser and plug in your own DNA data from 23andMe, Ancestry, etc. All pr…

We're building this at Monadic DNA. I recently posted about our first stab at this at https://vishakh.blog/2025/07/08/using-mpc-for-anonymous-and-... . We'll have a waitlist up pre…

I'm giving you general reasons why this is the case. For our own app, we hope to build a protocol where third parties can operate async on user data (with consent).

You may wish to build a protocol where third parties can asynchronously operate on user data. You may also want to have separation between the end app and the compute layer for leg…

It's really not that bad. We're close to using FHE in a production consumer app. https://vishakh.blog/2025/08/06/lessons-from-using-fhe-to-bu...

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https://www.cdc.gov/newborn-screening/about/index.html https://www.genomicsengland.co.uk/initiatives/newborns

We address this point in the article. On the default path with existing rules and regulations some degree of trust in labs will always be required. At-home sequencing could be a ga…

Your links seem to relate to regular plaintext sequencing, storage and analysis. We are building under full encryption.

Unfortunately, credible external audits are really expensive. Our project is bootstrapped so we won't be able to afford a 100k audit for a while.