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InclinedPlane
on Aug 17, 2012
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Harvard cracks DNA storage, crams 700 terabytes of...
Ah, interesting. In natural DNA this is achieved by using a more complex encoding scheme (3 base pairs -> one amino acid), combined with the vast majority of DNA not encoding genes directly.
skosuri
on Aug 17, 2012
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well, the genetic code has presumably evolved to evolve; it's unclear that it's evolved to preserve information
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