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Well ... it seems you might be right. Another estimation states: "Capable of storing 215 petabytes (215 million gigabytes) in a single gram of DNA, the system
by samuell 9y ago
Well ... it seems you might be right. Another estimation states:
"Capable of storing 215 petabytes (215 million gigabytes) in a single gram of DNA, the system could, in principle, store every bit of datum ever recorded by humans in a container about the size and weight of a couple of pickup trucks."
http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/03/dna-could-store-all-worlds-data-one-room http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/03/dna-could-store-all-w...
Not sure what they base it on though. Perhaps we'll have to do a more proper calculation ourselves ...
- samuell 9y agoPerhaps they include the weight of stuff like histones [1], which DNA is wound up upon in order not to get entangled. That could add some considerable weight. Also there are various epigenetic modifications on top of that, further adding weight, in DNA in its biological form. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Histone https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Histone