The information that explains your own biology should not sit behind a paywall, a login, or a wall of jargon. We are building the reference we wish existed: accurate enough that a physician finds nothing to correct, clear enough that anyone can read it, and open enough that anyone can reuse it.
DonateGenetics information online is split in two. On one side sit the research databases — precise, authoritative, and impenetrable unless you already have the training. On the other sit consumer sites that are readable but thin, hedged, and often quietly wrong. Almost nobody publishes work that is rigorous and readable, and almost nobody publishes it under a license that lets others build on it.
That gap is the whole reason MyGeneLog exists. We are working toward detailed, carefully-sourced coverage of four things and, above all, how they connect:
Each of those already exists somewhere on its own. Variants sit in one database, diseases in another, prescribing guidelines in a third, the chemical senses in the literature of a fourth. They have never been introduced to each other.
The join is the product. A position in your file is not information until it is connected to something — and connected differently, the same position becomes a different kind of answer.
So a person put on warfarin can reach the exact position their own file contains. A person who tastes soap in cilantro can find out why. A person who cannot digest lactose can see that it leads onward to calcium and vitamin D. None of that requires new science — all of it is already published. It requires the connections to be drawn, and drawn carefully enough that a clinician finds nothing to correct.
Connected, it stops being data and starts being about you.
Every page is written from freely-available published research, in our own words, and cited so you can check us. We say plainly when evidence is strong, when it's weak, and when a popular claim on the internet simply isn't supported — because a resource that only ever confirms what people hope to hear is worthless. Where a number is uncertain, we give the range rather than a tidy figure that looks more confident than the science is.
And we publish it openly. Our condition pages are licensed CC BY 4.0, and the variant dataset is available through a free public API with no key and no signup, so researchers, developers, students, and AI systems can all build on it with attribution.
This is not a finished catalog we're maintaining — it's one we intend to keep growing, aggressively and without an end date.
The standard we hold ourselves to is simple: a specialist should find our page correct, and their patient should find it readable. Anything that fails either test isn't finished yet.
MyGeneLog is also a free Windows desktop app that reads a raw genome file — a VCF, or a raw data export from 23andMe or AncestryDNA — and matches it against this curated set of findings. Your file is parsed in memory on your own computer. Nothing is uploaded, nothing is stored on a server, and there is no account to create. Privacy here isn't a policy promise; it's an architectural fact.
MyGeneLog does not perform genetic testing, and it is not affiliated with 23andMe, AncestryDNA, or any clinical testing service. Nothing here diagnoses a condition, predicts what will happen to you, or recommends a treatment. Genetics shifts probabilities; it rarely decides outcomes. For what a result means for you specifically, talk to a doctor or a licensed genetic counselor — and bring the page with you.
MyGeneLog is developed and maintained by narubox™. The app is actively maintained — if something goes wrong, or a citation here is wrong, tell us and we'll fix it and ship an update. We'd rather fix it than defend it.
The future of healthcare starts before anything goes wrong — with knowing yourself early. Prevention has always beaten treatment, and your genome is the earliest information about you that exists: it is readable decades before any symptom shows up. Someone who learns early that they carry the HFE iron-overload variants can have a simple iron blood test at a routine appointment, instead of discovering the problem after years of silent accumulation. Someone who knows they carry Factor V Leiden can raise it before surgery, or before starting something that adds to clotting risk. None of that is destiny — it is a head start, and a head start is what prevention is made of.
Your genome is a record of everything you inherited. Somewhere in that file is why milk does or doesn't agree with you, why one drink turns your face red when your friend's stays pale, why your earwax is the type it is — small, unmistakable signatures carried down from the populations your ancestors came from. And alongside them sit findings that actually matter for your health today: how you process caffeine, how your body handles iron or folate, whether you carry a variant worth mentioning to a doctor before surgery or a new prescription.
And none of those sit on their own. The variant that decides whether milk agrees with you is the same one that decides whether you get calcium and vitamin D from dairy — and vitamin D has a page of its own here, waiting at the other end of that thread. The receptor that makes coriander taste of soap sits beside the ones that decide what you can smell at all, and what you can smell decides what you end up eating. The gene that clears a statin out of your blood is the gene a prescribing guideline names. Pull on any one of those threads and it arrives somewhere else on this site. That is what turns a file of letters into something about you.
Reading all of that should not cost anything, and it should not require handing your DNA to a company. So the app is free — no ads, no subscription, no account, nothing uploaded — and the reference behind it is free to read and free to reuse. Meanwhile we keep doing the unglamorous part: collecting new variants every single day, researching and writing condition pages, and building out pharmacogenomic coverage one carefully-cited gene–drug pair at a time.
Drawing those connections is the slow part, and it is the part that needs more than we currently have. Every joined-up page means reading the primary literature, checking each figure against its source, and writing it so a clinician finds nothing to correct and everyone else can still read it. There are thousands of variants we have not reached, whole gene–drug pairs with published guidelines and no page, and an entire axis — smell and taste — we have only just begun. More research hours and more infrastructure is exactly what stands between the version of this you are reading and the one that answers whatever you came here to ask.
What that takes is unglamorous: time, and the resources to buy time. Time to read the primary literature. Time to notice the connection nobody has drawn yet — because the ones worth having are rarely the obvious ones, and finding them is the creative part of this work, not the clerical part. Nobody joined lactase to vitamin D, or a bitter-taste receptor to what ends up on a plate, because a database told them to.
If MyGeneLog told you something useful about yourself, a donation keeps it free for the next person — and buys exactly that: more hours, more connections, more of the thinking that makes any of it worth reading.
One-time, any amount, no account needed. Or get the app first — it's free either way.
MyGeneLog is a free, open reference for genetic variants, the conditions they relate to, and how genetics can affect drug response — plus a free Windows desktop app that reads your own raw genome file (a VCF, or a 23andMe or AncestryDNA export) entirely offline and explains the findings in plain language.
MyGeneLog is developed and maintained by narubox. It is independent, and is not affiliated with 23andMe, AncestryDNA, or any clinical genetic testing service.
Yes. Condition pages are licensed CC BY 4.0, which permits reuse — including commercial reuse — with attribution to MyGeneLog. The variant dataset is also available through a free public JSON API at /api/v1/variants with no API key and no signup. Most comparable sources are all-rights-reserved, research-use-only, or non-commercial, which is exactly why we chose an open license.
The connections. Variants live in one public database, diseases in another, drug-prescribing guidelines in a third, and research on smell and taste in a fourth. Each is excellent and each is separate. MyGeneLog joins them, so a person prescribed warfarin can reach the exact position their own file contains, and a person who tastes soap in cilantro can find out why. The underlying science is already published — what was missing was anyone drawing the lines between it carefully enough to be worth trusting.
Because it is the rare corner of genetics where the effect is not statistical. Most variants shift a probability a little; a change in an odour or taste receptor changes what a person actually perceives. Two people meet the same molecule and one of them smells nothing at all. The bitter-taste haplotype in TAS2R38 reaches a statistical strength of p = 3 x 10^-199, far beyond anything else on this site. And smell and taste are how we choose what to eat, which connects them directly to the metabolism and disease pages.
Every page is written from freely-available published research — sources such as peer-reviewed papers, MedlinePlus Genetics, GeneReviews, and CPIC pharmacogenomic guidelines — in our own words, with the sources cited on the page so you can check them. Nothing is copied from licensed or paywalled sources. Where the evidence is uncertain we state the range rather than a single tidy figure, and where a popular online claim is not supported by evidence we say so directly.
Continuously. New findings are collected from the public GWAS Catalog several times a day and reviewed, and additional variants are added manually after research review. Installed copies of the desktop app pick up new variants automatically, usually within 24 hours.
No. Your genome file is parsed in memory on your own computer and is never uploaded, stored, or transmitted. There is no server-side genome processing and no account to create — privacy here is an architectural fact, not a policy promise.
No. MyGeneLog is informational only. It does not diagnose any condition, predict what will happen to you, or recommend medication or treatment. Genetics shifts probabilities rather than deciding outcomes. For what a result means for you specifically, talk to a doctor or a licensed genetic counselor.
MyGeneLog is free, has no ads and no subscription. Donations cover hosting and the ongoing research work of adding new variants, conditions, and pharmacogenomic coverage. There is a donate link on this page and on the download page.