Quote Originally Posted by OhhWatALoser View Post
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.
Is this a appealing service for you? Why? Why not? What else would you want out of it?

I am working on targeting a specific section of DNA, not mapping the entire genome. By targeting a specific sections, a benchmark will be generated and can be used for comparison.

I am still working on setting up trials to determine turnaround time. There are a lot of factors that influence turnaround time including, sample type (swab or blood), DNA concentration for PCR (DNA replication) and then the actual protocol for running the sample. I am estimating that given basic constraints turnaround would be 1-2 days for digital results and 7-10 days for prints. With that being said, this is still only speculative until trials have been run and the protocol has been optimized.