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Oligo size isn't all that important since you geneally synthesize pools. You're right that reading the data back is expensive (essentially a sequencing project
by ende 9y ago
Oligo size isn't all that important since you geneally synthesize pools.
You're right that reading the data back is expensive (essentially a sequencing project), but for deep archives that you would only ever retrieve in a catastrophy, DNA has the potential to be an ideal medium.
- new299 9y agoIt makes it... less than ideal. And I don't believe we have good massively parallel synthesis approaches currently. Overall writing is problematic (reading also, but is getting cheaper/easier).