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94ssd:
--- Quote from: jwhouk on 12 Jan 2014, 21:26 ---No it isn't.
--- Quote ---According to a listing by the U.S. Geological Survey, Rugby is actually approximately 15 miles (24 km) from the geographic center of North America (6 miles (9.7 km) west of Balta), and even this designation carries no official status.
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"A random cornfield in the general area of Rugby, North Dakota" doesn't work as well as saying "Rugby, North Dakota."
pwhodges:
Windows XP requires more storage than the human genome: http://www.tmsoft.com/article-genome.html.
Actually, I don't know where that article got the 750MB for the human genome - I'm just working on pricing up a computer system based on a requirement of 250GB per genome (we're looking at 10,000 genomes, so 2.5 Exabytes).
Barmymoo:
I'm utterly at a loss to work out why you would need a computer system with storage based on the human genome, but that's almost certainly due to my near-complete ignorance of what you do and what is being done with DNA. Please elaborate if you can!
pwhodges:
Not storage based on the genome, but storage of the genomes.
We are working on the effects of drugs in the human body (cancer treatment, mainly, in my department). When comparing the effects in different people, a comparison of their genomes may be one thing that leads to a better understanding of the mechanisms that the drug invokes. Or maybe a feature of the genome can be identified that would enable prediction of the effectiveness of the drug in certain individuals (or even of their susceptibility to specific cancers). I can't go much further, not actually being a bioscientist myself!
LTK:
--- Quote from: pwhodges on 13 Jan 2014, 05:28 ---Windows XP requires more storage than the human genome: http://www.tmsoft.com/article-genome.html.
Actually, I don't know where that article got the 750MB for the human genome - I'm just working on pricing up a computer system based on a requirement of 250GB per genome (we're looking at 10,000 genomes, so 2.5 Exabytes).
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I assume you're not writing the genetic code as a string of 1s and 0s directly onto a storage device, which is what the article is describing. Presumably that would require much less bits than storing it as an actual file that programs can read and write to. Even writing the genetic code as a string of ATCGs in a text document would require much more than 750MB.
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