Genetic Testing Market: different business models and siloed datasets With at least 250 genetic testing companies (GTCs) worldwide, there are only few companies, database sizes of which exceed one million samples. The business model of the top direct-to-consumer (DTC) GTCs significantly differs from the one adopted by the majority in…

GRAPE is an end-to-end open-source Genomic RelAtedness detection PipelinE that can be freely used for scientific and commercial purposes (GitHub, Paper). GRAPE is accurate for close and distant relatives and is ready for production use. What is relatedness detection and how does it work? On average, each person…

Trends: ancestry prediction and DNA relatives matching are the best-selling direct-to-consumer genetic services The Direct-To-Consumer (DTC) genetic testing market has been gathering momentum since the completion of the Human Genome Project in 2003. According to public sources, more than 37 million people had taken DTC genetic tests by the end…