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>using DNA as an information storage medium is a pretty neat concept And billions of years old.
by Borrible 3y ago
>using DNA as an information storage medium is a pretty neat concept
And billions of years old.
- Daub 3y agoIts not often that HN makes me laugh.
- DeathArrow 3y ago> And billions of years old. With not quite good backup strategies.
- Borrible 3y agoDNA/RNA looks to be more like storing heuristics, landmarks and clues, not data.
- snitty 3y agoCan you elaborate on that? A significant portion of DNA in organisms literally encodes for protein sequences. It also has functional parts (binding sites for proteins, promoter sequences). Some RNAs are not translated because the RNA itself has function, but I don't see that same argument for DNA.
- Scarblac 3y agoIf you create your data right, the actual data can make backups of itself. There's even builtin ways for it to improve itself over time using genetic algorithms.
- TeMPOraL 3y agoA kind of implied meaning of the term "data", especially in context of storage and archiving, is that we do not want it to "improve itself".
- urfullofsht 3y ago[dead]
- dylan604 3y agoCould make for some interesting decoding errors as your original data mutates
- asdff 3y agoHaving an error rate means a small chance of gaining an edge that makes up for having it.