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What I never understand in these studies is why they always want to go for single base resolution immediately. Sequencing and writing is so expensive because an
by patall 10y ago
What I never understand in these studies is why they always want to go for single base resolution immediately. Sequencing and writing is so expensive because any error you make is a real problem. If instead, every bit was encoded by a default oligomer of 5 times the same base, you could live with much higher error rates. You would loose density but still achieve multiple orders of magnitude over current storage solutions.
- OrthoMetaPara 10y agoIn addition to mitigating errors in copying as you've highlighted, there is also the possibility that some stretch of bases in your message would have some deleterious effect on the organism. Thus, you would need to include some kind of redundancy into your code so that a bit could be represented in several different ways. The computer that encoded the message could then try to optimize the message so that it would be maximally amenable to storage.