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SUMMARY:Information storage in DNA - Dr. Nick Goldman (EMBL - European Bio
 informatics Institute\, Cambridge)
DTSTART:20131122T181500Z
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CONTACT:Dr Karyn Megy
DESCRIPTION:The human genome is the "hard disk drive" for human biology\, 
 encoding the instructions for constructing\, activating and silencing each
  of the molecules of which we are made.  DNA is the molecule that stores t
 he genome:  an intricate and endlessly complex entity that is present in e
 very cell of our bodies.  Genome scientists are able to read DNA sequences
  more and more quickly\, deciphering how they work to control biological p
 rocesses and understanding what happens when things go wrong.  I will talk
  about an experiment my team carried out\, in which we used standard DNA s
 ynthesis and sequencing methods\, originally developed for genomics resear
 ch\, to store and then recover five computer files (about 750kb worth):  a
 ll of Shakespeare's sonnets\; an excerpt from Martin Luther King's "I Have
  a Dream" speech\; Watson and Crick's seminal paper on the structure of DN
 A\; a photograph of the European Bioinformatics Institute\; and the code w
 e used to translate it all. This research has opened the door to the use o
 f DNA as a medium for archiving digital information\, which is a growing c
 hallenge in an expanding and increasingly digital-dependent culture.\n
LOCATION:Seminar Room\, Wolfson College
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