Storing information on DNA
Thursday, February 28th, 2008 | Genetics
It seems these gentians are after DNA to store data,rather harness the capability of DNA that how much can it store on it. Science daily has a very good research article on it. I have earlier said how DNA can store terabytes of data . DNA is actually 2 anti parallel running helix structure having bases like pyrimidines and purines. The article says only 3% of DNA space is used to store body information (what you are) and rest 97 % goes unused. The scientists intend to use that space for storing information such that it all goes unnoticeable for transmitting secretly any data.
Also the storage capacity is very high and this can be used for negative purpose. The data is tightly secured as the DNA is tightly wrapped. For detail information you may very well study that article linked above. Don’t want to bore you up into much complexity.
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