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all I care about is if we are getting Jurrasic park or not?

• tristanj 8y ago
  No chance. DNA has a half life of ~521 years [1] and any sample older than a few million years old will be too degraded to extract meaningful information. https://www.nature.com/news/dna-has-a-521-year-half-life-1.11555 https://www.nature.com/news/dna-has-a-521-year-half-life-1.1...
  • agumonkey 8y ago
    nah, just throw some ML inference and pray that most of their DNA was unused or secondary :p
    • tristanj 8y ago
      No, the article clearly explains why that won't work. DNA is not a long-term stable molecule. After millions of years the source material will be damaged beyond repair. Machine learning is not some magic band aid that solves impossible problems.