http://vadim.oversigma.com/MAS862/Project.html

Apparently human dna uses only 3% of the data on it...the rest is there as junk to prevent mutations and other problems...furthermore these 3% used are just 45MB of data! :eek: So I need to make a backup of myself than on 45 floppy disks. :D

Can back you up in 1 CD and the CD still contain space for 14 people more :D

Can back you up in 1 CD and the CD still contain space for 14 people more :D

exactly...:shrug: I need Einstein program loaded in me :p

Can back you up in 1 CD and the CD still contain space for 14 people more :D

Are you kidding? Who uses CDs anymore? You could fit 1,000 genomes on a single double layered BluRay (45 GB, as opposed to 700 MB).

w00t, lets all burn ourselves onto CD's and keep them in a time capsule, see ya in 2500 A.D. ..

Are you kidding? Who uses CDs anymore? You could fit 1,000 genomes on a single double layered BluRay (45 GB, as opposed to 700 MB).

A BlueRay is a CD too :cool: :D

w00t, lets all burn ourselves onto CD's and keep them in a time capsule, see ya in 2500 A.D. ..

I figure...lets live our lives and when we are like totally old we burn ourselves on a CD so that in future perhaps they will run us as software :p

Yeah, I wanna date that firefox chick, Foxey lady indeed.

They can't completely duplicate your genome, I think. I think there are huge sections of satellite DNA around the centromeres and end repeats that are impossible to read using the shotgun method.

I imagine the computing power to make that DNA legible would be enormous.

Imagine how Gigs it would be if it was coded by Microsoft!