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Show HN: How to increase Covid-19 test throughput by 46.5x
- 0xfaded 7y agoThis is likely an already known trick. However, if it isn't, it is a way that computer science can be applied to greatly increase testing throughput and proportionately reduce the cost of RT-PCR viral RNA testing. Can someone with better knowledge either confirm the method is already known, or perhaps comment on whether or not this would even work. Thank you.
- mooneater 7y agoThat is assuming you can detect one part positive when mixed with 92 parts negative?
- burning_hamster 7y agoYou could make the method more robust by sacrificing a few bits for error correction. For example, by using a Hamming code: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamming_code https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamming_code. Also, PCR robotor already exist. Not many around though.