"Madness" DNA Used to store Data

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Huge Amounts Of Data Can Be Stored In DNA
Scientists have used DNA to store an mp3, a jpeg photo, a pdf file - and every one of William Shakespeare's sonnets.

Just as a computer stores digital files as a unique code of 'ones' and 'zeros', scientists wrote information into a strand of synthetic DNA made from a sequence of four chemical 'letters'.

http://news.sky.com/story/1041917/huge-amounts-of-data-can-be-stored-in-dna

This is crazy lol DNA the future of storing data? :D Sorry if already posted.
 
Imagine walking into OcUK with a sterile pipette and saying "I'd like to buy 100 exabytes, please" :)
 
shankly1985 said:
Huge Amounts Of Data Can Be Stored In DNA
Scientists have used DNA to store an mp3, a jpeg photo, a pdf file - and every one of William Shakespeare's sonnets.

Just as a computer stores digital files as a unique code of 'ones' and 'zeros', scientists wrote information into a strand of synthetic DNA made from a sequence of four chemical 'letters'.

http://news.sky.com/story/1041917/huge-amounts-of-data-can-be-stored-in-dna

This is crazy lol DNA the future of storing data? :D Sorry if already posted.
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DNA Controls your life, you alter it you live forever.
 
al4x said:
its what DNA is after all. thought this was old hat..a 4 base information store
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The difficulty is actually in the sequencing and parsing.

And DNA nucleotides actually occur as 2 nucleobase pairs, purines consisting of adenine (A) and guanine (G),and the other pair is pyrimidenes with cytosine (C) and thymine (T)

The AG and TC nucleobases therefore form a base-2, e.g. binary information storage. The processing of DNA is remarkably similar to some computational models, and hence is the basis of bio-informatics.
 
D.P. said:
The difficulty is actually, in the sequencing and parsing.

And DNA nucleotides actually occur as 2 nucleobase pairs, purines consisting of adenine (A) and guanine (G),and the other pair is pyrimidenes with cytosine (C) and thymine (T)

The AG and TC nucleobases therefore form a base-2, e.g. binary information storage. The processing of DNA is remarkably similar to some computational models, and hence is the basis of bio-informatics.
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Only one strand is read. so you can have AGCT.. And one unit of information is 3 bases. AGC
There's a lot of redundancy as there are more 3 letter combinations than amino acids

One unit= ( )

(AGC) T
I I I I
TCGA
 
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This doesn't surprise me.

There's something like 1.5Tb worth of data in an average semen ejaculation. 1.5Tb!! Not only is that some serious transfer speed, but my socks have more data than my Media Centre... :(
 
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