BaseHealth was started by a former student of Davis’s. Its signature product, Genophen, sequences your genome (like many other companies do) but then uses a “risk engine”—a big data program that applies algorithms across medical, behavioral, and environmental information—to serve up a personalized set of behavior and treatment recommendations to accompany the genetic data about which diseases you have or are predisposed to get. Davis describes Genophen’s work as “rather breathtaking in its ambition.”
