Initiative in Innovative Computing @ Harvard
Seminar Series
Wednesday, April 30, 2008; 4:00pm
60 Oxford Street, Room 330
George Church, Professor of Genetics, Harvard Medical School; Member
of the Affiliated Faculty of the Harvard-MIT Division of Health
Sciences and Technology
Seminar Title:
DNA I/O: Computing Challenges in Reading Personal Genomes and Writing
Synthetic Genomes
Abstract:
Recent technologies have transformed DNA into yet another digital
medium for rapid input and output (I/O). Rather than asking DNA to
compete with silicon-based computers--with thousands of circuits on
every chip--on their own turf or vice versa, we are pursuing hybrid
systems, harvesting the fruits of natural past evolution or
accelerating it in the lab. As the cost of personal genomes drops,
how will we accurately obtain and interpret 6 billion base pairs each
for 6 billion people?
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