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Jan. 25, 2013
Shakespeare's Sonnets, Encoded in DNA
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Reporting in Nature, researchers write of encoding a variety of files -- jpg, mp3, txt, and pdf -- into strands of DNA. Lead author Nick Goldman says DNA is extraordinarily long-lasting, compared to today's hard drives or magnetic tapes. And if all the world's information were written in DNA, he says, it would fit in the back of a station wagon.
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Nick Goldman
Leader, Research team studying molecular genome evolution
European Bioinformatics Institute
Cambridge, United Kingdom
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