Using Sequencing.com's DNA API to Build DNA Apps

By building on Sequencing's API, you can reach a large base of users by offering your app in the Partner Marketplace.

What is a DNA app?

If you are new to the genetics space, you may be wondering what a DNA app actually is. A DNA app is a software application that interprets genetic data, runs an analysis, and returns useful feedback to the user. The feedback is often health related, drawing on insight across 100% of a person's DNA and their over 30,000 genes, though ancestry and other categories are popular as well.

An alternative to the 23andMe API

23andMe discontinued its developer API in 2018, which left many developers looking for another way to build apps that run on personal genetic data. Sequencing's API fills that gap.

Because of Sequencing's Universal Data Compatibility, apps you build become compatible with genetic data from a wide range of sources, including 23andMe, AncestryDNA, MyHeritage, FamilyTreeDNA, Living DNA, exome sequencing, and whole genome sequencing. You write to one API and your app works across many data types, rather than building a separate integration for each.

The Sequencing Marketplace API

The Marketplace API lets your app access customers and their genetic data by listing your app in the Partner Marketplace. Integration is designed to be straightforward, built around a small number of calls between your system and Sequencing. To support development, Sequencing provides integration tooling and a development environment so you can test and trace as you build.

Once your app is live in the Partner Marketplace, users can run it on the DNA data they have already uploaded, which lowers the barrier to adoption for both new and existing users.

Get started

If you are a developer interested in building an app on Sequencing's API, the best first step is to review the developer documentation and reach out with any questions. You can contact the support team to be pointed to the current developer resources.