What progress have you made since your last update?

This project has slowed down a bit because all the volunteers working on it became busy with other work. We have made some additional progress since then, most notably some work by Kman to make a predictor that we think should be able to explain roughly 10% of the within-family variance in intelligence.

What are your next steps?

Kman needs to finish the predictor and Franz needs to get a website up where people can upload genomes.

Is there anything others could help you with?

We could use some help finishing the front end for the website. There is a partly finished front-end, and a dev who is willling to work with anyone that wants to help get this project across the finish line. We still have about half the funds left, so we can provide some money to devs that want to help out with this (though probably not a market rate salary)

What progress have you made since your last update?

We've selected suitable intelligence / educational attainment predictors, set up a backend for processing and scoring common genotype file formats, and created a mostly working front-end. 

What are your next steps?

Over the next few months we are planning to finish basic work on the front-end, then deploy the website to production. We then plan to conduct user testing, which will likely result in some minor updates to the frontend. 

Is there anything others could help you with?

Our front-end developer recently developed some health issues that necessitated leaving the project. If anyone is interested in working on a React front-end for the website for this and is willing to accept somewhat below industry-standard pay ($25/hour), please get in touch.

We are interested in test-running the selection process with prospective parents using embryo selection services at a few of the available providers (i.e. requesting raw data from the provider, scoring against the intelligence predictor, and seeing how the resulting information can be compared & integrated with official guidance from the original provider). Prospective parents interested in using the service ahead of the website being publicly available could get in touch.

@iz Send me an email: morewronger@gmail.com