~90 GB
Raw reads from the sequencer.
Private, personal whole genome sequencing.
Hi there! We sequence your DNA. We send you the raw files. We don't keep your name or details. That's it.
you.fastaGRCh38 · 30x
How it works.
- 01Order. You receive a 16-digit client number. We use it to identify your sequenced genome, not you. It's how we keep your genome anonymous, even from us.
- 02We mail you a saliva kit. You send it back.
- 03We sequence your sample. The shipping record is destroyed when it arrives.
- 04Download FASTQ, BAM, and VCF using your client number.
- 05Once you've downloaded, we delete your genomic data from our servers.
What you get.
~50 GB
Aligned to GRCh38.
~150 MB
Variants called from your genome.
Pick your depth.
Genotype
A SNP chip. ~700K positions in your genome.
$149AUD
- ~700K SNPs
- VCF delivered
- 1 week turnaround
30x whole genome
Whole genome at standard depth. Right for most people.
$599AUD
- 30x mean, Illumina PE150
- FASTQ + BAM + VCF
- 2 to 3 week turnaround
60x whole genome
Clinical-grade depth. Better calls on hard regions.
$1199AUD
- 60x mean, Illumina PE150
- FASTQ + BAM + VCF
- 3 to 4 week turnaround
Your genome should be yours.
We think everyone should have access to their own genome. We also think you shouldn't have to send your spit and a copy of your driver's license to a company in California to get one.
Why have your genome at all? Because what you can do with it is about to expand fast. AI agents that know you well will run circles around agents that don't, and your genome is the most stable, biographical context you can ever give them. It carries the story of your ancestral migrations going back tens of thousands of years, and the chemistry every cell in your body uses to build itself.
What we can read from a sequence keeps changing. The most useful tools five years from now will ask questions we don't yet know to ask. Holding your genome as files you control, in formats every tool can read, means you can hand it to whichever tool you trust next year, or the year after, without asking anyone's permission. We don't want to be the bottleneck between you and what you might want to do with your own data.
The history isn't reassuring. 23andMe sold their database to a pharmaceutical company, lost most of the rest of it in a breach, then was carved up when they declared bankruptcy. Police forces use commercial genealogy databases to identify suspects, often by triangulating from relatives who never consented to anything. Once your genome is on someone else's server, your control over it depends on their good behaviour. That has not aged well.
Banksia Bio is built around the assumption that we will, at some point, be served with a court order, breached, or pressured to sell. So we keep as little as possible. The privacy guarantee isn't a feature we added at the end. It's the core of the service.
A 16-digit client number is the only thing tying you to your sequenced genome. The information we need to fulfil your order, like a shipping address and a payment, lives in a completely separate system that never touches the sequence data. Your shipping record is wiped the moment the lab logs your tube.
If a court asks us who genome 4391-7820-… belongs to, our honest answer is that we don't know. We designed it that way.