Genomic traits

A genomic report imported onto a client’s record is read into individual traits so you can see them in one table. Open the client, pick Tracking, then Genomic under Clinical.

Protocol reads trait genetics only: the everyday tendencies that sit alongside training and nutrition. This page explains what the table shows, and the several things it deliberately does not.

What the table shows

Each trait gets a row: the trait, the note the import wrote under it, the gene, the genotype, and a single reading word.

The Reading is the word the imported report itself used, shown in lower case, in the same quiet grey as every other word on the row. It describes the reading of a genotype. It is not a score and it is not a statement about the person.

Above the table, three tiles count what was read: traits scored, genes read and categories. Those are facts about the file.

When a report carries more than one category, chips beside the title filter the table to one of them, with All to go back.

Why there is no risk score

Protocol shows you what the file says. It does not tell you what that means about your client.

That is a deliberate limit rather than a missing feature, and it is the same limit as lab results carrying no red or green. Protocol is a wellness and optimization platform: it does not diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any condition. Deciding what a genotype means for somebody is a clinical judgement, not a coaching one.

So three things you might expect are absent on purpose:

• No risk score. Nothing on this screen ranks a client against anybody.
• No count of things to act on. A number of traits read is a fact about a file. A number of traits worth acting on would be a judgement about a person.
• No colour ladder. Every row is drawn the same way. A genotype is not good news or bad news, and colouring one green and another red would say it is.

The product’s own standing line sits on the summary card, and it is the honest summary of this whole screen:

Traits describe tendencies, not outcomes. Discuss anything here with your doctor.

Where the traits come from

The table is read from a genomic report imported onto the client’s record, and it holds exactly what that import produced: the trait, the note, the gene, the genotype and the reading. Protocol does not fetch anything, does not re-interpret the file, and adds no reading of its own. If a trait is not in the table, it was not in the file.

Adding a file

Add genomic data, at the top of the panel, takes the report the client was given: upload the PDF or images, or paste the text. Reading a genomic file is slower than reading a lab report and usually takes a couple of minutes, so the wizard tells you it is working and you can leave the screen and come back; the result waits for you.

When it finishes, Use processed data moves you to a table of everything it found, where you edit or delete rows before saving. Nothing lands on the client until you save, and Start new import throws the whole reading away and begins again, which is what to do when a file was misread rather than slightly wrong.

Where the import also wrote an overall note, it appears as a Summary card beside the table on a wide screen, with the line above underneath it.

A client with nothing imported reads No genomic traits for this client, which is what most of a roster looks like.

Only on clients with the Longevity add-on

Genomic and Labs together make up the Clinical group in the tracking rail, and that whole group is absent on a client without the Longevity add-on. Not greyed out: the heading and both rows are not drawn at all. See The Tracking tab.

The add-on is granted per client rather than per account, so the group can be there on one client and not on the next.

How to use it in coaching

Treat a trait the way you treat a preference a client told you about: useful context for the plan you were going to write anyway, and never a reason to override what you can measure. If somebody’s caffeine trait reads one way and their sleep log reads another, the sleep log is about them this month.

If anything here concerns you or your client, the next step is their doctor. Protocol is designed to help that conversation happen better informed. It is not a monitoring service, and nobody at Protocol reviews imported files.

For the full statement of what Protocol is and is not built to do, see Intended Use.