Analyzing my own genome on Google Cloud Batch

Mon, 27 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000

I had my genome sequenced, and got back two files: a pair of gzipped FASTQs, about 150 GB, holding a few billion short DNA reads. That is the raw output of a sequencer — essentially a giant pile of 150-letter fragments with no idea where in the genome each one belongs. Turning that into something you can actually read — here is where you differ from the reference human genome, and here is what those differences might mean — is a real computational pipeline.

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Analyzing my own genome on Google Cloud Batch