Tuesday, August 21, 2012

Encoding literature in DNA

In a few decades from now, your version of the Bible or Harry Potter (or best selling book of the 22nd century, the whatever that may be) could be imposed only in a small vial of liquid or small chips. Researchers at Harvard University have just coded in DNA fragments instead of the book on the physical copy, or (e) cc.

The Alphabet Of DNA

DNA is made up of building blocks called nucleotides, similar to how the alphabet consists of building blocks called alphabets. In the language of DNA, there are only 4 alphabets instead of 26,

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