Harvard cracks DNA storage, crams 700 terabytes of data into a single gram

Re:Harvard cracks DNA storage, crams 700 terabytes of data i... by ipince on Friday August 17, 2012 @04:07PM (#4398500)

I'm sorry, can you clarify what that means? You wrote each piece of data 100 times? what does the 1000 refer to?

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Re:Harvard cracks DNA storage, crams 700 terabytes of data i... by skosuri on Friday August 17, 2012 @04:13PM (#4398543)

we printed the dna microarray using agilent's ink jet process (agilent is a spin off of hp; imagine an inkjet with actg instead of cmyk). each spot on the array has many hundreds of thousands of molecules. after we cleave the dna off the array, we take a portion of that, amplify and the sequence it. the portion we took off we estimate ~100 molecules for every oligo we made (55,000). we the sequence to get >55 million reads (so 1000x coverage); but these are just averages, and the distribution varies. you can check out the supplement of the paper if you are interested.

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Re:Harvard cracks DNA storage, crams 700 terabytes of data i... by StavrosK on Saturday August 18, 2012 @05:23AM (#4400674)

> imagine an inkjet with actg instead of cmyk

Holy shit, this exists? Wow.

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Re:Harvard cracks DNA storage, crams 700 terabytes of data i... by skosuri on Saturday August 18, 2012 @11:01AM (#4401294)

http://www.genomics.agilent.com/GenericB.aspx?PageType=Custo...

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Re:Harvard cracks DNA storage, crams 700 terabytes of data i... by somesaba on Friday August 17, 2012 @04:17PM (#4398567)

I think it refers to 1000x coverage on read which is then averaged

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