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DNA data is interesting but I have to figure that it would be more interesting to encode information into protein. DNA is 4 bases, more information than binary
by kjkjadksj 2y ago
DNA data is interesting but I have to figure that it would be more interesting to encode information into protein. DNA is 4 bases, more information than binary certainly, but with protein chains you could use all the amino acids there are.
Apparently 500 have been found in nature so far although us humans personally use far fewer. It would also seem to me you could engineer a stronger protein structure then how DNA is structured.
- jryb 2y agoSure, but existing protein sequencing and synthesis technologies are severely limited. You'd lose so many orders of magnitude in scale, speed and cost that the increase in the number of characters wouldn't be worth it.