im not exactly sure what you are looking for us to say?
of course it would be awesome for someone to map the ball python genome. since you already apparently have a means to get dna into digital form, you already have one obstacle out of the way. some questions I would ask are how long does it even take to get one snakes dna into a database. just a quick look around on google is showing me humans take about 3 days. With that in mind how many normal snakes are you going to have to test before you can compare them to morphs to see where these alleles sit? I mean are we looking at a possible multi year project before you have the data you need?
It wouldn't be only testing hets, you could also end the lesser/butter debate and the cinny/black pastel debate, see what other morphs are actually the same, see what morphs lay on the same locus. Theres a lot we could get from this, but as you see above there concerns of money and also time.
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