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tocomment on Aug 17, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Harvard cracks DNA storage, crams 700 terabytes of...

Do you don't ever make a large single molecule like you'd find inside cells? You're saying you create the fragments and then read back the same fragments?

skosuri on Aug 17, 2012 [–]

yup. each fragment has an address that specifies it's location in the bitstream. we are lazy.

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