Big Y BAM FGC interpretation option and discount for L21

[TigerMW]

FGC (Full Genomes Corp.) provides interpretations/analyses of Big Y .BAM files for $50 but people in the R-L21 project can get them for only $40 when using our coupon code.

From my perspective, a professional service's value is derived from the people behind the service. This is what I like about FGC's analysis - their consultant, Dr. Greg Magoon. Greg is top-notch, period. He is not just a citizen-scientist. He IS a scientist. He documents and publishes his work. I especially like that he is an R1b specialist as well as a Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) expert. Below are two papers he is an author on:

"Discovery of Western European R1b1a2 Y Chromosome Variants in 1000 Genomes Project Data: An Online Community Approach"
http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article…

"Generation of high-resolution a priori Y-chromosome phylogenies using 'next-generation” sequencing data'"
http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2013/11/22/000802.1

He is also a key player in ISOGG. I would like to see Greg receive as much L21 data as we can give him. Besides helping us more formally document our tree, I hope our data could be useful in future papers and analysis. We have more NGS tests done than any other subclade so we'd be ideal for a study.

Here is the ordering web site and discount:
https://www.fullgenomes.com/purchases/6/ Coupon code: R1b-L21

This is important. All of this in-depth analysis is of little value if not shared.

In your FGC profile, please share your results with the email ID "[email protected]". It is a registered account at FGC that I set up for the purpose of more easily sharing .BAM files and interpretation results. Alex Williamson is on board with this and has access to this account so this can help him (which helps us all) better refine the L21 Big Tree as well as proving positioning on more formal trees. I will add a column to the FTDNA kit # to YSEQ ID cross-reference sharing list. We will add FGC kit IDs so we can keep all of this straight in the research and analysis. I maintain this list on the R1b-L21-project yahoo group in conjunction with Mark Jost.

This is just an option that you might consider, but we've already got a number of people engaged in this. The more the merrier!

[Petr]

Wow, the price is really again $50, I purchased the service on January 6th and on January 30th for $40, so I supposed that the price is lowered to $40 permanently.

[TigerMW]

Wow, the price is really again $50, I purchased the service on January 6th and on January 30th for $40, so I supposed that the price is lowered to $40 permanently.

Just to be clear. FGC has told me the price is now $50 for this interpretation service, which appears competitive.

L21 project people get a special discount so for them, the price is $40, as long as they use discount coupon code.

[rod]

How long does it take to get BigY interpretation results?

[MitchellSince1893]

It varies, but 2 to 4 weeks is in the ball park

[rivergirl]

I'm not sure how to pass the BAM data to FGC.
I thought there was a new Share link, but I cannot see anything to create that on my FTDNA accounts.
Do I have to download the BAM files and email them to FGC?
I tried this ages ago and it failed.

[rod]

I have a share link. I'm not sure how long it's good. If it's gone, you may have to request it again.
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[TigerMW]

How long does it take to get BigY interpretation results?

I received mine in about a week.

[Petr]

How long does it take to get BigY interpretation results?

Ordered on Jan 6th, results received on Jan 9th.
Ordered on Jan 30th, results received on Feb 19th.

[TigerMW]

We've now got over 40 L21 folks already signed up and sharing their .BAM data and FGC interpretations through the [email protected] account at FGC. Great start for 24 hours!