Comment Re:Question (Score 1) 138
Firstly, it's _not_all that much information. 1 mega-base = 2 mega-bytes; DNA only comes in A,C,T and G.
The search enginge that makes it possible for scientists around the world to coorelate this sort of data is called BLAST:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/BLAST/
If you poke around the web-site for a while, somebody has probably come up with something better than BLAST while I wasn't paying attention.
I really should learn html. Anybody recommend a particular book (as opposed to the doznes of others, not just one that you happen to know exists.)
Dr. Praetorious
UCSC Molecular Biology
The search enginge that makes it possible for scientists around the world to coorelate this sort of data is called BLAST:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/BLAST/
If you poke around the web-site for a while, somebody has probably come up with something better than BLAST while I wasn't paying attention.
I really should learn html. Anybody recommend a particular book (as opposed to the doznes of others, not just one that you happen to know exists.)
Dr. Praetorious
UCSC Molecular Biology
