What is an "at home" genetic data analysis project?

Answer 1

Hi!

The answer to your question depends on whether you meant "at home" in regards to your own genetic data, or "at home" to mean doing the analysis of genomic data sets in the comfort of your own home.

While I will say that both are achievable, the latter will be the most likely. There are tons of genetic data available to the public:https://www.completegenomics.com/public-data/69-genomes/

and others- just google "publicly available genomic data" and import it as a .csv file or similar.

From there, you would import the data, clean the data to contain only the relevant variables, and run a series of statistical tests on your gene loci of interest (this is where a prior understanding of genetics would help). Usually, you end up with a heat map showing "up regulation" or "down regulation" of certain gene loci, given a certain condition from the population, but you could also work backwards and investigate which conditions lead to up regulation, and so forth.

Hope this helps!