BioForward hosted the first Wisconsin event that collected genomics data, the organization announced recently.

According to a release, BioForward partnered with keynote speaker Dr. Chris Mason, Associate Professor of Weill Cornell Medicine and Director of WorldQuant Initiative for Quantitative Prediction, at its Biohealth Summit. Attendees had their smartphones swabbed to be included in a global microbiome and metagenomics study.

“BioForward was excited to partner with Dr. Mason to provide a unique experience to our members and students from the state,” BioForward CEO Lisa Johnson said in a statement. “It is these types of experiences that remind us why the work our industry is doing is so critical and why the industry peaked our curiosities in the first place.”

Eighty-seven percent of the DNA on one participant’s phone came from unknown sources, one participant’s phone tested strongly positive for octopus DNA and 79-100 percent of bacterial DNA found on participants’ phones come from bacteria that have the ability to make humans ill.