: "It's been somewhere between tough and impossible to talk about for more than 20 years. And something I'm proud of but can't talk about starts to feel a lot like something I'm ashamed of. Which is really too bad, because that was great work. (And I'm THRILLED to learn that it's had ongoing impact.)"

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It's been somewhere between tough and impossible to talk about for more than 20 years. And something I'm proud of but can't talk about starts to feel a lot like something I'm ashamed of. Which is really too bad, because that was great work. (And I'm THRILLED to learn that it's had ongoing impact.)

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Cool thing: One of the other companies who were helping the effort devised a forensic SNP panel. SNPs are great, because you don't need nearly as much contiguous DNA to find them as with STRs. Then we had to make an efficient many-to-many matching algorithm. *Amazing* to see it work the first time.

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