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Even reading is a destructive process, and the physics involved are incomprehensibly complex by comparison with anything in the digital domain.
by throwanem 1y ago
Even reading is a destructive process, and the physics involved are incomprehensibly complex by comparison with anything in the digital domain.
- kjkjadksj 1y agoThere are ways to read it nondestructively. One way does trade resolution but once prepped the DNA itself can be imaged to be read. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G_banding https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G_banding
- throwanem 1y agoThat does not read DNA. A chromosome is not a strand and a karyotype is not a sequence. In any case, I described what a ribosome does.