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Kevin Borland visits Speed and Balding - Blog entry by lkessler - 23 Jun 2020
... is the author of Borland Genetics, a fantastic site where you can upload your Raw DNA data, match to others, and use tools to reassemble your ancestors’ DNA. I very recently wrote a blog post about Kevin’s site. Kevin also has a blog in which he has been posting very interesting articles, usually of an analytic nature which are ...
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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 interesting. Their “Mega ...
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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 who you match to and other ...
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Determining the Accuracy of DNA Tests - Blog entry by lkessler - 10 Apr 2020
... extracts each contain about 2 million SNPs that are tested by the five major consumer DNA testing companies: Ancestry DNA, 23andMe, Family Tree DNA, MyHeritage DNA and Living DNA. Almost two years ago, I posted: Comparing Raw
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New Version of WGS Extract - Blog entry by lkessler - 6 Apr 2020
... 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 remain anonymous, last month made a new version available.You can get it here: https://wgsextract.github.io/ The program last ...
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25 Years of Delphi - Blog entry by lkessler - 13 Feb 2020
... for me. (2008) A program to analyze 100 GB raw data files from whole genome DNA tests. (2019) One thing I never have done is resurrected my chess program. For a while I considered it, but I knew it would be a lot of work and I didn’t want to take my time away from my genealogy software. In the past couple of years, deep learning and Alpha Zero has made all ...
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So Much Fun! - Blog entry by lkessler - 25 Jan 2020
The Family History Fanatics’ @FHFanatics online Winter DNA eConference has just finished and it was so much fun. Andy and Devon sure know how to put un a good show. This was the first time I’ve presented at an online conference. I was able to do this comfortably from my office at home and my family was really good and went out of ...
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Double Match Triangulator, Version 3.1.2 - Blog entry by lkessler - 21 Jan 2020
... about Double Matching and Triangulation Groups at the Family History Fanatics Winter DNA eConference this Saturday. I’ll be presenting my material in a very visual style taking you through some of the challenges I have with my own genealogy and DNA matches. I’ll be introducing some concepts that I don’t think have been discussed ...
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DNA eConference on Saturday, January 25 - Blog entry by lkessler - 17 Jan 2020
... up in a week’s time. I’ll be one of the speakers on what will be a great day of DNA talks. I have given many talks at conferences, but this will be my first virtual talk from the comfort of my office at home. I just submitted my Syllabus today and will be spending the next few days reviewing my presentation and tweaking my slides. I’ll be talking about Double ...
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Aligning My Genome - Blog entry by lkessler - 4 Jan 2020
... 38, or hg 38). But I’m doing this to compare my results to my raw data from other DNA testing companies. Those are all June 2013 GRCh37.p13 (aka Build 37, or hg 19). So I’m going to use Build 37. The two reference genome files are each about 800 MB in size. They are both compressed, and after unzipping, they are both about 3 GB. The files are in FASTA format. They ...
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