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>Although I am a big fan of encoding information in DNA, nothing in the arguments for it make sense, economically speaking, compared to more mature industries l
by ryanmercer 8y ago
>Although I am a big fan of encoding information in DNA, nothing in the arguments for it make sense, economically speaking, compared to more mature industries like hard drives and flash.
The only application I could ever think that would ever remotely make sense would be when genetically engineering things you could use the 'junk DNA' to put information in about what you designed however, with enough time/generations, it would be garbled.
- dekhn 8y agoit would be a terrible idea to put data into the junk DNA sections. They're highly variable, under weird selection, and may even have a function that, when replaced with other DNA, could have a deleterious effect. That said I do think you could replace large swaths of LINES and SINES and Alu without any negative functionality. I think Reed Solomon encoding should be quite robust.