lexipixel - 2:20 am on Jan 24, 2013 (gmt 0)

Squillions of bytes in one cup of DNA In his demonstration, Birney and fellow-researcher Nick Goldman, both of the EMBL-European Bioinformatics Institute, called on Agilent Technologies to help them a variety of content onto manufactured DNA: a jpg photo of the EMBL-EBI, a PDF of the Watson and Crick paper that first described DNA, a txt file containing all of Shakespeare’s sonnets, and an mp3 of Martin Luther King’s "I Have a Dream" speech. All of this went onto manufactured DNA strings "as big as a speck of dust" [theregister.co.uk...]