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jonchang on April 24, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Counsyl is Pioneering A New Bioinformatics Wave

How is this different, from, say, 23andme? Does it do whole genome sequencing in addition to SNP chips?

daslee on April 24, 2013 [–]

The 23andme founder talks about this here on quora: http://www.quora.com/How-do-the-tests-conducted-by-Counsyl-d...

The Counsyl CTO gives the tl;dr response: 23andMe is recreational genomics, Counsyl is clinical genomics.

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