checkoutmygenes

23andMe was founded to empower individuals and develop new ways of accelerating research. The members of 23andMe have come together because we believe in the combined potential of genetics and the Internet to have a significant, positive impact. We are looking for software engineers, dba's, systems engineers, and bioinformaticians to help develop our industry-leading personal genome service.

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mikep at 23andme

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18 checkoutmygenes 15 years ago 6 comments

Comment · 16 years ago

23andMe is hiring across the board (PM, Eng, Design). You'll work with tight-knit and talented team on a breakthrough product. Let me know if i can answer any questions: mikep _at_ 23andme.com

Comment · 16 years ago

> Direct to consumer sales are dead/dying at the hands of the FDA.

Not true - such rumors have been greatly exaggerated.

>What do you have to offer that say, Counsyl doesn't?

At the moment: Access to your whole genotype and a curated set of the published literature, rather than a narrow carrier screening. Deep ancestry analysis & finding long-lost cousins. A commitment to advancing the science of genetics. As the database grows, the insights we generate create more value for the end-user. http://tinyurl.com/246mw46

In the future: There's lots of opportunity - come talk to us about it.

>How do you avoid a war to the realm of being a commodity?

genotyping is becoming commoditized, the interpretation of the A's, C's, G's and T's is not. We're in a sweet spot where rapidly falling costs: - let us offer our service at a lower cost to a broader market - improve the rates of discovery & create a more valuable interpretation We have an economy of scale which will allow us to: - negotiate lower costs - have a bigger database of potential relatives to meet - better interpret the meaning individual's genetics