Cool - I used to read sequence on films as well :-) Genotyping will be on top of my wish list for Christmas. I need to decide on 23andme , DecodeMe or another supplier. I may go with DecodeMe just to support them....if they still exist... - Nils Reinton

@Nils: I'll detail why I went (initially) with 23andMe in a follow up post. But cost, data availability, and data sharing options where the main reasons. Navigenics charges $199 after the first year for updated analyses. And like you, I just wasn't sure about Decode being around for the long haul... - Todd Harris

Hmmm. Having myself genotyped vs having a lasik surgery to get rid of glasses. On a student budget, can't really afford either, but the latter would be more bang for the buck. Would be cool though. But not via the service my ex-employers back home in Iceland offer - financial situation pretty dire currently. - 'Mummi' Thorisson

Think I will put genotyping on my xmas wishlist as well. @Nils, @Todd: I too have read sequence on film; we are really dating ourselves by admitting to this! - Bill Hooker

It's going to be the nerdiest xmas ever! One of my most exciting moments at the bench was reading off a sequencing gel late in the night, finally coming across the first mutation in a gene I had been positionally cloning for years. It was at the limits of resolution but still clear enough to poke your eye out. Seems mundane now, huh? I still think the readouts from old school sequencing gels are amazing - such a tangible way of seeing the unseeable. - Todd Harris

I wish I'd kept a few of my old gel films -- I'd like to frame one to hang on a wall at home. Nerd art! - Bill Hooker

Me too! I had a boxes and boxes of autorads, lost somewhere along the way during the inevitable academic life-shuffle. - Todd Harris

@Bill, @Todd I'll dig out some of my old ones and send them to you for christmas...if you're lucky you'll get some of those with smiley bands in the corners and edges of the gel :-) - Nils Reinton