What is PK2DNA?

This is an open-source / learning version of the code that powers http://twitter.com/pk2dna.

Read more about it here: [future blog post url]

So, you'd like to tweet your genome!

This involves a linux-like environment, a text editor, and a twitter account. Here's what you do:

Get data + credentials

• Download your genetic blueprint from 23andMe
• Create a Twitter App (for python-twitter auth) at http://apps.twitter.com
• Get a server somewhere for this repo. Clone and plop it up there.

Configure

• Run pip install -r requirements.txt
• Put your genetic blueprint data file from 23andMe into /data
• be sure to trim any unwanted comments/lines of text before you begin!
• Drop your client key/secret and access token key/secret into twitter_settings.sample.py and rename to twitter_settings.py
• Add watch -n[time in seconds] /your/path/to/pk2dna/postAndTrimFirstLineOfGenome.sh 2> /your/path/to/pk2dna/watch_errors.txt to /etc/rc.local

To run

• reboot your server, and watch the tweets roll in!
• If you'd like to have less fun, you can run source /etc/rc.local

Troubleshooting

• try running python postAndTrimFirstLineOfGenome.py or python postGenomeStatus.py directly from the command line.
• if you don't want to execute, but you want to compile, you can run python -m py_compile postGenomeStatus.py postAndTrimFirstLineOfGenome.py to see if there are syntax errors
• Also, check watch_errors.txt to see if watch ran into any issues