tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18103977.post1008980995040989876..comments2024-03-28T03:24:52.114-04:00Comments on The Lansey Brothers' Blog: How Many Gigabytes are in a Human Finger?Eli Lanseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01955234977479398457noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18103977.post-48445756098572305712010-09-17T15:37:38.128-04:002010-09-17T15:37:38.128-04:00I'd tell you, but then I'd also have to bi...I'd tell you, but then I'd also have to bill you by the hour...Ezranoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18103977.post-88107682367891291322010-09-17T15:36:58.040-04:002010-09-17T15:36:58.040-04:00I'll go with a bajjillion.I'll go with a bajjillion.Ezranoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18103977.post-49051840319696829172010-09-17T08:04:58.169-04:002010-09-17T08:04:58.169-04:00My pinkie is smarter than your pinkey. Nyah, nyah,...My pinkie is smarter than your pinkey. Nyah, nyah, nyah.Lillhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16293773573930344639noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18103977.post-46105189901407313192010-09-16T15:34:03.443-04:002010-09-16T15:34:03.443-04:00Worker bees are uniformly female. DNA encodes for ...Worker bees are uniformly female. DNA encodes for much more than proteins as we're discovering now, the information is stored in codons which don't have a one-to-one correlation with the data and certainly don't have a two bit per pair correlation, and those viruses which have short genomes need them to be short precisely because they're hijacking cellular machinery. All of them need to escape detection, some of them need to be inserted into the host genome, and in any event they don't need to code for all the information they use, since they make use of existing cellular machinery.<br />Entertaining, though.SJesterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02069442390131295438noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18103977.post-29203497153833730812010-09-16T13:49:02.744-04:002010-09-16T13:49:02.744-04:00There are certain times when shorter strands of DN...There are certain times when shorter strands of DNA do get selected for. Viruses have very small genomes, and in some viruses those code for more proteins than genes. The genome is transcribed forwards, backwards and forwards again from some point in the middle, generating three proteins. <br /><br />Transcribing DNA is actually extremely energy-intensive. The really interesting thing is that those things with the shortest genomes are precisely the parasites that don't actually have to pay the complete cost of copying it.notElonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04857651031212875523noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18103977.post-18609560764196093852010-09-16T02:37:15.745-04:002010-09-16T02:37:15.745-04:00Congratulations Yoni, you have now discovered an a...Congratulations Yoni, you have now discovered an amazing way for me to store 715 MB of data in my finger, ~5 x 10^9 times. Although, I can almost fit my entire genome on a CD. However, if you found a way to encode cells with unique data and combined them into an organic hard drive, and this hard drive was about the size of an average human, it would store 6.35 zettabytes or around 6.8 billion terabytes. This is also approximately twice the amount of data observed by the entire US population in 2008 (not unique data). As an estimate if you take the 3 Lansey Brothers and convert them to organic storage mediums we could probably store all the unique information of all man kindAndrew/Aryehhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02480596378995796136noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18103977.post-10692088127383764872010-09-16T02:36:01.951-04:002010-09-16T02:36:01.951-04:00This comment has been removed by the author.Andrew/Aryehhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02480596378995796136noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18103977.post-44171360048193283332010-09-15T22:43:00.191-04:002010-09-15T22:43:00.191-04:00A cell ~10um diameter, so ~10^3 um^3 volume. My po...A cell ~10um diameter, so ~10^3 um^3 volume. My pointer finger is, I'd estimate ~5 cm^3. So, ~5 x 10^9 cells? If 3 x 10^9 base pairs in human genome, that's around 715 MB. So, 3.4 x 10^6 TB, or 3.25 exabytes? Yikes.Eli Lanseyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01955234977479398457noreply@blogger.com