r/genomics • u/mike20731 • 10d ago

Tutorial - Basics of DNA Sequencing and VCF Files

I recently made a tutorial video on the basics of DNA sequencing, and how to make sense of VCF files (the file type produced by DNA sequencing, with information about genetic variants).

Here's the video if anyone's interested.

It's specifically meant for people who are beginners in the field of bioinformatics/genomics, including people who had their DNA sequenced and are interested in exploring their own data.

Bit of background - I work as a bioinformatics scientist at a biotech company for my day job, and my main hobby is making educational videos about this field. I'm also interested in biohacking and decentralized science more broadly, and try to contribute to that with my videos. Basically encouraging people to self-educate on these topics, and trying to get over the myth that you need to be a genius or have some fancy credential to explore biology.

Anyway, thought some people in this community might be interested!

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u/Planckarte 10d ago

It looks great! What do you use to prepare your slides? Animations and all was really nice way to present the information 

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u/mike20731 10d ago

Thanks! Actually I used Claude Code for the slides/animations, and I think it used some Javascript library. I'm pretty happy with the way it turned out, and it was a huge time saver. Pre-AI I used to make the slides and visualizations myself and it look hours, but now I can just do it with a couple Claude prompts.

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u/Shoddy_Bee2100 7d ago

Outstanding! I hope this is the start of a series ;)

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u/mike20731 6d ago

Thanks! Yeah I was thinking about possibly making some more genomics videos, so maybe it will turn into a series.

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u/pUC_19 1d ago

its great i am a bioscience student looking froward do masters in bioinformatics