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I agree with the low demand for more expensive personal WGS. I think you can mostly get what you want with ySeq: currently 400$ for 90 GigaBases WGS sequencing, with the data sent to you via SD card. You can request immediate data deletion. Only genealogical analysis is included, everything else is DIY.

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Thanks for the tip on ySeq.

I think there is some sort of middle ground here. Although 99% of consumers don't care about privacy, it's an org risk as we saw with 23&Me. A consumer focused, privacy heavy but cloud based platform will emerge in the wake of 23&Me.

ySeq has a 5 month waiting list for WGS, any other suggestions?

what would you pay for this service? how quickly would you want the data? what format do you want the data in?

399 from YSeq seems fine for 30x coverage.

Gemini says a reasonable cost estimate from saliva to SNPs is $163.84 - $211.84 using Ultima $80 for sequencing (funny that sequencing is no longer the bottleneck on cost).

FASTQ is fine but I'd prefer BINSEQ: https://github.com/ArcInstitute/binseq. I'm writing my own pipeline from BINSEQ.

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