Tutorials

Start exploring your genome

Open your .genome, ask a focused question, and learn to check the evidence behind each answer.

Start here · 3 lessons

Your first question.
An answer you can check.

Go from opening your files to a saved answer, with a worked example at every step.

Start your first walkthrough No bundle yet? Try the synthetic exercise.
What you’ll learn to seeSynthetic example

What does this record actually tell me?

01 · In the file
Record demo-001 contains an A/G value.
02 · In the annotation
An example association, with a placeholder source.
03 · Still unknown
The example cannot support a personal conclusion.
  1. 01

    Open your bundle

    Set up your workspace and check the files.

  2. 02

    Ask your first question

    Follow a worked example, then try your data.

  3. 03

    Check the evidence

    Trace the answer back to what was read.

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12 tutorials

Getting Started

Understand your .genome bundle

Identify the files in your bundle and choose where to start.

6 min read · Any AI tool

Getting Started

Ask your first genome question

Follow a synthetic example from one question to a saved, checkable answer.

6 min read · Codex, Claude Code

Getting Started

Open your .genome in Codex

Set up your workspace and verify that Codex can read your files.

5 min read · Codex

Getting Started

Create an evidence-backed report

Save a focused investigation with file references and a reusable prompt.

7 min read · Codex, Claude Code

Getting Started

Check the evidence in an AI answer

Trace each claim to a file or source, and spot unsupported conclusions.

6 min read · Any AI tool

Prompting

Write better genome prompts

Turn a broad question into a specific request for evidence.

6 min read · Any AI tool

Prompting

Get citations from AI answers

Ask for file references and research sources you can inspect.

5 min read · Any AI tool

Prompting

Build reusable prompt templates

Save a useful workflow so you can repeat it with a new question.

6 min read · Any AI tool

Genomics Basics

FASTQ vs gVCF vs .genome

Understand what each file format preserves and when to use it.

6 min read · Any AI tool

Genomics Basics

What 30x actually means

Learn what average sequencing coverage can and cannot tell you.

5 min read · Any AI tool

Exploration Workflows

Explore a research card with your genome

Take a Genome Explorer question into your own files and follow the evidence.

6 min read · Genome Explorer, Any AI tool

Build

Build with .genome

Choose a local, MCP, or API workflow for a genome-aware tool.

8 min read · API, MCP, Local code