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AikidokaUK t1_ixy80t6 wrote
Reply to comment by nexisfan in Scientists Have Found a Way To Manipulate Digital Data Stored in DNA by Sorin61
Yarp. Though afaik, it can only be used for storage, not processing, unlike QC
AikidokaUK t1_ixy735y wrote
Reply to comment by FrustratedLogician in Scientists Have Found a Way To Manipulate Digital Data Stored in DNA by Sorin61
Digital is basically, like a light switch, on or off, which is shown as 1 and 0. This strung together can represent numbers 0 to 9, every letter of the alphabet and special characters.
DNA is made up of 4 chemical bases, which are represented by the letters: A, C, G & T.
Now if you you use the base of 4 (A, C, G & T) instead of a base of 2 (1 & 0), you can effectively use the DNA structure to represent what binary represents, just way more efficiently. A bit like the use of Qubits in quantum computing.
AikidokaUK t1_ixy3oce wrote
Reply to comment by zillskillnillfrill in Scientists Have Found a Way To Manipulate Digital Data Stored in DNA by Sorin61
Interesting way to say that you don't understand what digital is
AikidokaUK t1_ixy8ssb wrote
Reply to comment by nexisfan in Scientists Have Found a Way To Manipulate Digital Data Stored in DNA by Sorin61
When I say processing, I mean the calculations that current silicone chips carry out that ultimately manipulates something electronically, not biologically processing DNA information.
We don't have any sort of interface for that........ Yet