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Xcode Life Health Reports - Blog entry by lkessler - 5 Jun 2020
On Facebook, I was delivered a sponsored ad for getting health reports from your DNA raw data at a 55% discount from a company called Xcode Life. @xcode_ls I’ve always been much more interested in DNA for genealogical purposes than for health, but I had never heard of this company and it sounded ...
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Upload Your Raw DNA Data to Borland Genetics - Blog entry by lkessler - 25 May 2020
There’s another website I recommend you upload your DNA raw data to called Borland Genetics. See this video: Introducing Borland Genetics Web Tools In a way, Borland Genetics is similar to GEDmatch in that they accept uploads of raw data and don’t do their own testing. Once uploaded, you can then see ...
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OneDrive’s Poison Setting - Blog entry by lkessler - 8 May 2020
OneDrive's default setting of no limit for network upload and download rates has caused years of Internet problems at my house. Unbeknownst to us, it would from time to time consume most or all of the Internet bandwidth affecting me when on my ethernet connected desktop computer and affecting everyone else in ...
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Determining the Accuracy of DNA Tests - Blog entry by lkessler - 10 Apr 2020
In my last post, New Version of WGS Extract, I used WGS_Extract to create 4 extracts from 3 BAM (Binary Sequence Alignment Map) files from my 2 WGS (Whole Genome Sequencing) tests. These extracts each contain about 2 million SNPs that are tested by the five major consumer DNA testing companies: Ancestry DNA, ...
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New Version of WGS Extract - Blog entry by lkessler - 6 Apr 2020
Back in May 2019, I wrote about a program called WGS Extract to produce from your Whole Genome Sequencing (WGS) test, a file with autosomal SNPs in 23andMe format that you can upload to sites like GEDmatch, Family Tree DNA, MyHeritage DNA, or Living DNA. The mastermind behind this program, who prefers to ...
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When Everything Fails At Once... - Blog comment by lkessler - 29 Mar 2020
Thanks Randy. Setting up a new computer is only a week out of one's life. Couldn't be a better time to do it than while you're self-isolating.
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When Everything Fails At Once... - Blog comment by rjseaver - 22 Mar 2020
I'm glad you had a great cruise and were able to take 1000 photos. I dream about taking my phone into the ocean...wondered what would happen! So now you have a camera to take to the pool or ocean or lake...
The desktop computer problem is one i'm facing any day. My data is backed up to iDrive every night, ...
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When Everything Fails At Once... - Blog entry by lkessler - 22 Mar 2020
Remember the words inscribed in large friendly letters on the cover of the book called The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy: DON’T PANIC I returned 9 days ago from a two week vacation with my wife and some good friends on a cruise to the southern Caribbean. While away, we had a great time, but every day ...
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Computers 23 years ago - Blog entry by lkessler - 25 Feb 2020
#Delphi25 #Delphi25th – I came across an email I sent to a friend of mine on February 6, 1997 (at 1:17 AM). I’ll just give it here without commentary, but it should amuse and bring back recollections of people who were early PC users. --- You should find this message to be a little different. I ...
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OneDrive’s Poison Setting - Blog comment by sullrich1 - 11 May 2020