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FTA: While it took years for the original Human Genome Project to analyze a single human genome (some 3 billion DNA base pairs), modern lab equipment with micr
by boomzilla 12y ago
FTA: While it took years for the original Human Genome Project to analyze a single human genome (some 3 billion DNA base pairs), modern lab equipment with microfluidic chips can do it in hours.
OK, so assuming 1 hour for 3 billion bases, it's 1000 hours for 3 trillions bases (3 Terabits) or 1 million hours for ~3 petabits (or 400TBs of data). Yeah, that's a long time, roughly 100 years :)
- aethertap 12y agoIt should be highly parallelizable though, so all hope is not lost.
- laxatives 12y agoI believe that also consumes the strands you're reading, so unless the source is copied many times, it is probably even slower than that.
- andrewstuart2 12y agoGood thing cells have been copying DNA since life began.
- schrodinger 12y agoGreat, now my hard drive is going to get cancer!
- andrewstuart2 12y agoAt least you can remove/destroy the cells though. Aside from DNA storage & replication, there's no auxiliary purpose of the tissue. http://xkcd.com/1217/ http://xkcd.com/1217/
- laxatives 12y agoI'm not a biologist, wouldn't those cells would prefer to copy their own DNA?
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