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Harvard cracks DNA storage, crams 700 terabytes of data into a single gram

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Re: Harvard cracks DNA storage, crams 700 terabytes of data into a single gram

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They're teaching us this in ComputerScience and I wonder if this is total crap or not. Can you please shed light into this? "In humans, the deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA, Germ. DNS) is the carrier of genetic information, and the main constituent of the chromosomes. DNA is a chain-like polymer of nucleotides, which differ in their nitrogen bases (Thymin/Cytosin bzw. Adenin/Guanin,) The alphabet of the code is therefore:…

You aren't far off, but there are some errors. Excuse in advance any errors below, it's been a while since I did this stuff daily. Human genome is 23 chromosomes, 2 copies of each (46). They are not mirror copies like RAID1, but rather alleles (different versions of same gene). So you might have a different version of a gene on each half of the chromosome. This is the basis for sexual selection and why sexual organis…

>> And how much data did they fit into one DNA pair?

Info: According to Quora the avg. weight of the Human DNA is 60g, that means a Human could carry 700TB * 60g = 42000 TB Note: 700TB = 7.69658139 × 10^14 bytes

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