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24 alternatives to Gene Inspector Pro
Hi HN, I’m Sergey. When my son was diagnosed with several health conditions, a doctor told us to “learn to live with it.” I refused and started looking for answers. I spent the next seven years teaching myself genetics and cellular biology. That search led me to build Gene Inspector and have my family’s DNA sequenced. I now study genomic data from 14 family members across three generations. Gene Inspector turns raw DNA data into a shortlist of findings people can investigate. Instead of searching through millions of variants, users can quickly find potentially interesting ones, explore how…
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.
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Get ahead of your genetic health risks and prevent disease
2024 · 2ly.link · its alternatives →
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Accessible end-to-end deep dive of crawling, embedding, projecting, and semantic searching all of Hacker News for my Hackerverse project.
2024 · blog.wilsonl.in · its alternatives →
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Phage Explorer▲127I got really interested in biology and genetics a few months ago, just for fun. This was largely inspired by the work of Sydney Brenner, which became the basis of my brennerbot.org project. In particular, I became very fascinated by phages, which are viruses that attack bacteria. They're the closest thing to the "fundamental particles" of biology: the minimal units of genetic code that do something useful that allows them to reproduce and spread. They also have some incredible properties, like having a structure that somehow encodes an icosahedron. I always wondered how the DNA of these…
Jan 2026 · phage-explorer.org · its alternatives →
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SelfDecode▲125Personalized health recommendations based on your genes.
2017 · selfdecode.com · its alternatives →
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I made a web game inspired by Geoguessr and Wordle, where you get shown a 3D model of a random human protein each day, and you have to triangulate its gene name using similarity clues. My background is in wet lab molecular biology and I intend this game to be engaging mostly to other biologists. But if you're outside the field, I'm interested to know if you can still solve it with browser use LLMs, and if you learned something interesting doing so. Let me know what you think. I made it with Claude over the last 2 months. My coding experience is limited to basic python data analysis and…
Dec 2025 · geneguessr.brinedew.bio · its alternatives →
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Google's AI map of every possible human DNA mutation
Sep 2026 · blog.google · its alternatives →
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Hi HN, I spent a few weeks looking at the top HN posts of all time. This included exploration, clustering, creating visualizations, and zooming in on what (to me personally) seems like some of the best discussions on here. Three things in this post: 1- The interesting groups of HN posts 2- The interactive visualizations that you can explore in your browser 3- The data from this exploration -- this includes CSV of the titles as well as the text embeddings of 3,000 Ask HN articles. Blog post about this whole process here: [1] ============ 1- The interesting groups of HN posts From the…
2022 · its alternatives →
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A physician-ordered DNA test for all 20,000 genes
2020 · probablygenetic.com · its alternatives →
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Hi Hacker News! I’m a Bayesian statistician that has been working on applying hierarchical mixture models (originally developed for genomics) to structure text data, and in the process, used these models to build (what started as a personal) tool for conducting literature reviews and deep research. My literature review process starts with a broad search to find a few key papers/groups, and from there expands along their citation networks. I needed to conduct a few rounds of literature reviews during the course of my research and decided to build a tool to facilitate this process. The…
Oct 2025 · sturdystatistics.com · its alternatives →
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Online DNA and Protein Sequence Tools, Alignments, Reverse complement, Translation, Sequence annotation, design Primers
2017 · genewarrior.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN — I’ve been working on Gene, a general-purpose, homoiconic language with a Lisp-like surface syntax, but with a core data model that’s intentionally not just “lists all the way down”. What’s unique: the Gene data type Gene’s central idea is a single unified structure that always carries (1) a type, (2) key/value properties, and (3) positional children: (type ^prop1 value1 ^prop2 value2 child1 child2 ...) The key point is that the type, each property name, each property value, and each child can themselves be any Gene data. Everything composes uniformly. In practice this is…
Jan 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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GeneCodex▲88A free and open source genetic variant viewer
2023 · codex-brandonsaldan.vercel.app · its alternatives →
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Wrote a program in FreeBASIC to try and find out how Genetic Algorithms work. It's a quick hack that I wrote to try some theories with because the Wikipedia Article on GAs reads like greek to me. So I built it from the general principles i knew at the time. The "genome" per individual is an array of 9000 integers but I used only monochrome pictures with either black or white; An individual also has a fitness score. There are 1000 individuals in the population and only two are selected to reproduce. So that makes 9 million (yes, MEELION as El Reg would write) data points and the scoring…
2015 · its alternatives →
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AlphaFold 3▲161Predicting the structure & interactions of life’s molecules
2024 · blog.google · its alternatives →
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I started this trying to understand two things: why my Asian friends turn red after drinking, and why several friends all seemed to have migraine clusters. I was reading medical papers and textbooks, but kept getting lost jumping between topics. I thought: what if I could just Cmd+Click through this like code? What if "ALDH2 gene" was actually clickable, and took me to the variant, the phenotype, the population frequencies? So I started modeling human biology in Rust with my Ralph agent (Claude in a loop, ty ghuntley). Turns out the type system is perfect for this. Every biological entity is…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Learn to use your genetic data to optimize your health.
2021 · geneticlifehacks.com · its alternatives →
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Sequence Bio▲69Unlocked Newfoundland’s genetics for drug discovery
2019 · sequencebio.com · its alternatives →
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Personalized Genomics and Proteomics. Main diet: Ensembl, side dishes: SNPs - tariqdaouda/pyGeno
2016 · github.com · its alternatives →
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The largest ancestry DNA database in the world
2014 · familytreedna.com · its alternatives →
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