dna2json: A JavaScript repository from pvjones

Information

Package	dna2json
Description	Formats your DNA file as JSON
Node Version	>= 0.4

Terminology

SNP

A SNP (Single-Nucleotide Polymorphism - pronounced snip) is a variation of a single nucleotide (A, G, C or T) at some location in your genome. The presense of particular variants, or groups thereof, can tell you a lot about yourself (hair color, height, muscle type, allergies, response to disease, response to pharmaceuticals, heritage, etc.).

Personal genome vendors will typically produce an analysis that covers some of these attributes - but will also provide you with 'raw' data, should you wish to investigate further.Your 'raw' data from any vendor will be a list of several hundred thousand SNPs, located across the autosomes (chromosomes 1-22), the sex chromosomes (X and Y), and possibly the mitochondrial chromosome. Given that your genome contains two copies of each autosome, and either XX (female) or XY (male), the data contains a 'genotype' composed of the two variants at each location.

Vendors

Name	Supported	Price	Sample	Autosomal SNPs	Y SNPs	X SNPs	MT SNPs	Raw Data
23andMe	Yes	199/99 USD^*	Saliva	967,000	3,089	26,087	2,737	Yes
ancestryDNA	Yes	99 USD	Saliva	682,549	885	17,604	0	Yes
FamilyTree	Yes	99 USD	Cheek Swab	708,092	0	18,091	0	Yes

^* 23andMe picing is 199 USD domestically and 99 USD abroad.

CLI Usage

Use this if you just want to convert your data to the correct format so you can start querying your genome.

$ npm install dna2json -g
$ dna2json
Usage: dna2json <input file> <output file>
$ dna2json dna.txt dna.json
This will take a while...

Module Usage

var dna = require('dna2json');
var fs = require('fs');

var txt = fs.readFileSync('dna.txt');
dna.parse(txt, function(err, snps){
  // snps = the object with your mutations
});

SNP-JSON

Every vendor has their own format for your DNA. I decided to make a standard format called SNP-JSON. This library will convert custom formats to this standard.

SNP-JSON looks like this

{
  "rs4477212": {
    "chromosome": 1,
    "genotype": "AA"
  },
  "rs3094315": {
    "chromosome": 1,
    "genotype": "AA"
  },
  "rs3131972": {
    "chromosome": 1,
    "genotype": "GG"
  },
  "rs12124819": {
    "chromosome": 1,
    "genotype": "AA"
  },
  "rs11240777": {
    "chromosome": 1,
    "genotype": "GG"
  },
  "rs6681049": {
    "chromosome": 1,
    "genotype": "CC"
  },
  ...
}

Explanation:

The key is the RSID or vendor ID.
Chromosome is which chromosome the data came from (1-22, X, Y, or MT).
Genotype is the value for the RSID.

Using your SNP-JSON

Just Write Code™

In this example we will determine if you are immune to norovirus:

var dna = require('./dna.json');

if (dna.rs601338.genotype == 'AA') {
  // congrats you are immune!
}

Genosets

Once you have your data in the right format you can use the library of genosets by genomejs.

You can view a list of these by searching npm for genoset

You can also publish your own tools that analyze your DNA! Here is a tool that we recommend to get you started GQL

LICENSE

(MIT License)

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

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