I always care about the performance of my body as a biohacker. The first thing to measure it is to have data, I already bought a Mi band to record my exercise and sleep. But as a bioinformatician, I do want to have my sequencing data. Fortunately, the institute of synthetic biology, especially the center of synthetic microbiome owns a MiSeq sequencing machine, so I got the chance to have my 16S amplicon sequencing data as a volunteer to donate my sample within our Lab’s project. Further more, the company we work work with, Xbiome also acquiring donners for FMT. I think I’m health enough to pass the strict filter process, so that I can have my time series metagenome data for free. Yeah, that’s the best situation.
Since I have the ability to analyze the microbiome’s data, I think that will be better if I can deep down to analyze the composition of my gut microbiota and the role that they take place in my body. I also interested in experiencing the whole process, like form sampling to sequencing and then to data analyzing. That will be an awesome microbiome project for myself!
It just like experimenting in myself, but I do have the awareness to control the whole process, and I can have the most complete metadata of myself. Since I take the Rob knight’s online course Gut Check, I formed a habit to record my diet, it as simple as taking a picture of what I eat every date:
With these food log I got the brief idea of how it reflect my gut microbiota, and let’s see the detail after I got my raw sequencing data.
Wellcome to check my progress of this project:
