Our mission
We learned to read the human genome in 2003. You still haven’t read yours.
Twenty-three years on, it isn’t hard any more. Nobody built the thing that hands it to you.
log scale · on a linear axis the last fifteen years are a flat line
Five million things make you you.
Places where your genome differs from the reference. Almost none of them have ever been looked at, by anyone, on your behalf.
Medicine still treats you like the average.
Screening ages and guidelines are built from population averages. Useful, and not about you.
So we sequence once, and keep it for life.
One swab, read at clinical depth, stored as long as you want it. You pay for the reading once.
The science will get better. Your genome won’t change.
The file we read this year is the file a much better model reads in 2032. Your report is a draft, not a verdict.
We will never sell who you are.
It’s in our charter as a Public Benefit Corporation, so it binds whoever owns Lifecode next. Research use is opt-in and de-identified.
The Lifecode team
Read your own genome.
Order your genome