Mobile apps work best when they make it simple to efficiently scan and consume information, often while walking, talking or "paying attention" in meetings.
The simple way to search for such genes would be to gather thousands of patients with disease and scan through all ten million places where humans differ by a single DNA letter, comparing the results to thousands of healthy control patients.
That's an MRI scan of New York Times writer Matt Richtel's brain that was captured while he played a simple driving game -- all in the name of science (and journalism), of course.