SNPedia Releases a Mac Version of Their Promethease Tool. Hurray!

by Andrew Meyer on May 26, 2008

snpedia logoI’ve been waiting for Mike Cariaso over at SNPedia to turn out a Mac version of their Promethease tool.

Well, last night Mike emailed me and told me they now have a Mac version. I immediately ran my raw genome data (a file downloaded from my 23andMe account) through the tool, which took about 2 hours.

promethease tool analysis

The tool compares your raw genome data against SNPedia’s impressive collection of DNA information and creates a report that you can browse. Here’s a screen grab of my Promethease report:

promethease tool results

SNPedia explains how to read the Promethease results here. This is the general format for the results:

promethease tool format

As you can see above, the presentation of the report’s results is very basic. They plan on improving the report in future iterations. Stay tuned here and over at SNPedia’s blog.

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  • RobSutherland
    I have downloaded the Mac version too. When I try promethease on my DeCodeme data or a 23andMe data-set. I consistently receive the same error: "Exception in thread Thread-2:
    Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "threading.pyo", line 486, in __bootstrap_inner
    File "prometheaseui.pyo", line 27, in run
    File "SNPediaWalker.pyo", line 675, in pgeReports
    File "SNPediaWalker.pyo", line 746, in writeReport
    NameError: global name 'WindowsError' is not defined"

    Any ideas?
  • Rob, I didn't get that error when I ran my data. You should drop a line to
    Mike Cariaso at SNPedia. He'll definitely help you figure it out. His email
    is "cariaso at gmail dot com".
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