Decode Your Body’s Defense Systems
RAW brings laboratory-grade microbiome and immune-system analysis directly to you — turning complex molecular data into personalized, actionable insight. At-home kits, results online, real science behind every reading.
Precision health, delivered to your door
RAW transforms complex molecular data into personalized action plans — making precision health faster, more accessible, and entirely yours. Easy-to-use kits ship to your home; your results live online, backed by the same methods we use in peer-reviewed research.
Gut
Deep profiling of the gut microbiome and its functional activity.
Oral
The oral microbiome — an early window into whole-body health.
Skin
The microbes and chemistry behind breakouts, sensitivity and barrier health.
Soil
Environmental and soil microbiomes, from the same lab-grade pipeline.
- Laboratory-grade microbiome and immune-system analysis
- Personalized, plain-language action plans — not just raw data
- Built on open, peer-reviewed science, not a black box
We don’t sell a glimpse of your biology. We read it.
The at-home testing market runs on curated snapshots, black-box algorithms, and subscriptions — and, in more than one case, companies that went bankrupt with your data inside them. RAW was built on a different premise: read your biology in full, with the tools we use to publish science and win funding from NASA, the NIH, and the Department of Energy.
We read your whole biology — not a curated slice
23andMe and AncestryDNA read under 1% of your genome on a chip. uBiome used 16S sequencing that can’t resolve species or function. We use shotgun and whole-genome-depth sequencing that reads communities down to the strain and the gene — then interpret it at research depth.
We tell you what your biology is doing
A taxonomic list and a wellness score stop at who’s there. We annotate function across genes and pathways — including biology’s “dark matter” that most tools leave blank — and read the immune-system signals others ignore entirely.
Our methods are open — not a trade secret
Every consumer platform here runs on closed algorithms no outside scientist can inspect. Our tools are open-source, peer-reviewed, and reproducible — the real gold standard, where a result only counts if someone else can reproduce it.
Validated the hard way
uBiome’s tests were charged by the DOJ as not validated. Credit to the strongest players — Viome and ZOE do real, published work. But our methods are validated in peer review and funded by NASA, NIH, NSF, USDA, and the DOE. Those agencies don’t reimburse marketing claims.
Your genome deserves a steward
In 2025 23andMe went bankrupt and 15M customers’ data was sold in court. uBiome ended in an FBI raid. Invitae went bankrupt in 2024, its databases sold to Labcorp. Nebula shut down its consumer service in 2025. We answer to peer review and institutional oversight — not a growth funnel or an acquirer’s balance sheet.
Built by a scientist who writes the code and runs the bench
Most consumer players are marketing companies with a lab attached. RAW is a lab with the software built in — founded by a working scientist with 88 peer-reviewed papers who engineered the analysis tools himself. An instrument, and the expertise to read it.
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| Company | Core technology & depth | Functional insight | Transparency | Track record |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Consumer ancestry & genotyping | ||||
| 23andMe | SNP chip — ~600K markers (<1% of genome) | Trait & risk associations | Proprietary | Ch. 11 bankruptcy (2025); data sold out of bankruptcy |
| AncestryDNA | SNP chip — ~700K markers | Genealogy & ethnicity estimates | Proprietary | Operating; genealogy-focused |
| Consumer whole-genome sequencing | ||||
| Nebula → DNA Complete | 30–100× whole-genome sequencing | Automated trait / ancestry reports | Proprietary | DTC service discontinued 2025; privacy litigation |
| Dante Labs | 30–110× whole-genome sequencing | Report-based health & ancestry | Proprietary | Operating; documented service complaints |
| Consumer microbiome & nutrition | ||||
| uBiome | 16S rRNA amplicon — genus level | No — taxonomy only | Proprietary | Defunct (2019); founders charged with fraud |
| Viome | Metatranscriptomic RNA + AI | Activity → supplement & diet recs | Proprietary / black-box | Operating |
| ZOE | Shotgun metagenomics + CGM & blood-fat tests | Microbiome score → nutrition program | Proprietary (peer-reviewed methods) | Operating |
| Clinical genetic testing | ||||
| Invitae | Targeted panels / exome sequencing | Clinical variant interpretation | Proprietary | Ch. 11 bankruptcy (2024); assets acquired by Labcorp |
| Color Health | Clinical panels (hereditary risk, pharmacogenomics) | Clinical reports | Proprietary | Operating |
| The alternative | ||||
| RAW Molecular Systems | Shotgun / whole-genome depth — at-home kits (gut, oral, soil) | Function + immune-system signals + “dark matter” annotation | Open-source, peer-reviewed, reproducible | Scientist-led; lab-grade, delivered to your door |
Company statuses, technologies, and figures reflect publicly reported information from 2024–2026; some matters (including privacy litigation) remain unresolved or reflect allegations not proven in court. Sequencing methods, regulatory status (FDA / CLIA), and product details vary by provider and change over time.
Dr. Richard Allen White III
RAW is led by a rare kind of scientist — one who writes the software and runs the bench. He is an Associate Professor of Bioinformatics and Genomics at UNC Charlotte, affiliated with the Charlotte AI Institute and the CIPHER Center, and the founder of RAW Molecular Systems.
- 88Peer-reviewed papers
- 35h-index
- 9,000+Citations
- $1.95MResearch funding
- 60+Scientists trained
Dr. White’s research spans an unusually wide frontier — computational virology, microbial ecology, multi-omics, megaphage biology, and bat immunology — united by a fascination with biology’s “dark matter,” the vast fraction of every genome that current tools cannot interpret. Rather than work around the limits of existing software, he engineers his own: a growing ecosystem of open-source bioinformatics tools, much of it rebuilt in high-performance Rust and used freely by laboratories around the world.
His work has been supported by $1.95M in funding from NASA, the NIH, the NSF, the USDA, and the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, and he collaborates with leading institutions including the Innovative Genomics Institute founded by Jennifer Doudna and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. That same rigor — laboratory-grade, transparent, and reproducible — is what powers every RAW kit that arrives at your door.