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

it's to avoid sequence features which are problematic like high GC content

InclinedPlane on Aug 17, 2012 [–]

Ah, interesting. In natural DNA this is achieved by using a more complex encoding scheme (3 base pairs -> one amino acid), combined with the vast majority of DNA not encoding genes directly.

skosuri on Aug 17, 2012 | [–]

well, the genetic code has presumably evolved to evolve; it's unclear that it's evolved to preserve information

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