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They didn't actually store it, they "showed how to encrypt it" and extrapolated that they should be able to store that much...
by vehementi 16y ago
They didn't actually store it, they "showed how to encrypt it" and extrapolated that they should be able to store that much...
- bhickey 16y agoSpot on. The article is garbage. The Declaration of Independence is about 8000 bytes, without parity you could encode the whole thing in 378 bases. With a little more care you could avoid generating open reading frames (ensure that the sequence 'ATG' never appears). There is nothing novel or exciting about storing this amount of data in bacteria. If you grow multiple copies of it, you haven't stored 90gb of data, you've simply made copies of your original 8k.