linkedin post 2016-06-12 04:29:07

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VAST AMOUNT OF GLOBAL GENETIC DATA. "Storing the total amount of information encoded in DNA in the biosphere, 5.3 × 10(31) megabases (Mb), would require approximately 10(21) supercomputers with the average storage capacity of the world’s four most powerful supercomputers." https://lnkd.in/ewABXeK View in LinkedIn
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linkedin post 2016-06-13 04:36:22

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DNA EDITING is a critical part of replication for non-virus or non-bacterial swarm lifestyles. If the replicated genetic information contains errors from the process, these errors in the genetic code will often have serious or lethal consequences. And given the frequency and speed of DNA replication, highly efficient proof-reading is necessary. With increased molecular sophistication comes the need for another layer of complexity. The eukaryotic dilemma. View in LinkedIn
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linkedin post 2016-06-12 04:19:07

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INFORMATION STORED IN HUMAN GENOME. "Instead of describing each cell as a 1.5 Gb parcel, it would be more useful to think of each cell as containing 1.5 Gb of “core” code with much more than 1.5 Gb of data (~35 million histones, each with 8 subunits, and each subunit with likely a thousand unique states) that represents the current active state of the code." http://bitesizebio.com/8378/how-much-information-is-stored-in-the-human-genome/ View in LinkedIn
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linkedin post 2016-06-13 04:26:39

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DNA VIRUS PROOFREADING KNOCKOUTS. "This apparent contradiction can be solved by noting that in RNA viruses, genetic information is even more compressed than it is in DNA viruses, because replication and transcription are biochemically equivalent, often catalyzed by a common molecular complex, and, in the case of positive-stranded RNA viruses, based on the same RNA molecule."" " https://lnkd.in/e9KGgbm View in LinkedIn
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linkedin post 2016-06-11 04:53:21

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PLANETARY COMPUTING POWER. "If all the DNA in the biosphere was being transcribed at these reported rates, taking an estimated transcription rate of 30 bases per second, then the potential computational power of the biosphere would be approximately 10(15) yottaNOPS (yotta = 10(24)), about 10(22) times more processing power than the Tianhe-2 supercomputer, which has a processing power on the order of 10(5) teraFLOPS (tera = 10(12))." https://lnkd.in/ewABXeK View in LinkedIn
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