Geneticker is a local-compute, federated genomics platform. Cipher reads your DNA entirely on your own device. Decipher lets researchers query the whole pool — and only aggregate answers ever leave a device. The genome itself never moves.
One is for the person whose DNA it is. One is for the scientist who wants to learn from it. They meet in the middle, without the genome ever changing hands.
Load a VCF and Cipher reads it entirely in your browser — health, trait and ancestry insights, computed on your device. Then you choose what leaves it: nothing, anonymous markers, an encrypted genome, or a full donation.
Author a query once; it runs on every consenting participant's device in Cipher and returns only the aggregate you asked for. Browse donated genomes, and read any of them base-by-base in the DNA Canvas.
Cipher and Decipher are two ends of one loop. Data is computed where it lives; only consented aggregates travel.
You load your VCF in Cipher. It's parsed on your device — insights are computed locally, and your genome is encrypted with a key only you hold.
Cipher · youA researcher authors a federated query in Decipher — a specific aggregate over specific markers, with a consent ceiling and a k=20 anonymity floor.
Decipher · researcherEach consenting device answers on its own. Cipher shows you exactly what would be sent — then only the aggregate returns. Never the genome.
the federationBoth apps sit on the same foundations — and the same radical honesty about what genetic data exposes, including your blood relatives.
Encryption happens in your browser via Web Crypto. For the encrypted-genome tier your key is never sent to us and we hold only ciphertext. Shared markers and donations are stored under their own, clearly-stated terms.
Genomes are pinned to IPFS by their cryptographic hash via Pinata — portable and content-addressed, not locked to a single cloud vendor.
Every marker carries a sensitivity tier — from technical/QC (0) to identity (7). You share by tier, and a query can never exceed its consent ceiling.
Federated cohorts modelled below 20 respondents trip a re-identification warning before anything is shared. Small groups don't get answered blindly.
Decoys keep your ancestry & physical markers but shuffle the internal ones, encrypted and pinned alongside the real genome to muddy the trail.
Readings are informational, not a diagnosis. An aggregate is not automatically anonymous. A public genome is public forever. We say so, on every screen.
Read yours in Cipher. Query the pool in Decipher. Same account across both — same key, same passkey.