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From: roy@phri.UUCP
Newsgroups: sci.bio
Subject: Re: question (really information content of [human] DNA)
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Date: Tue, 31-Mar-87 08:32:39 EST
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Posted: Tue Mar 31 08:32:39 1987
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In article <2112@PUCC.PRINCETON.EDU> 6065833@PUCC.PRINCETON.EDU writes:
> But consider that even if you discount duplicate pieces of RNA, there is
> the problem of huge pieces of RNA junk stuck on the ends which are cut
> off as the RNA strings leave the nucleus.  Not to mention that nonsense
> sequences in DNA are transcribed into RNA, and only later cut out.  How
> do you tell which nucleotides are meaningful?

	Sounds like the old disk drive capacity game.  How big is an Eagle?
Unformatted, it's about 450 Mbytes.  But, once you format, it it's down to
about 380 (on a Sun anyway) and if you put a file system on it you're down
to maybe 370 after you leave room for inodes and such, and if you consider
that you have to leave 10% free space, maybe you're down to 335, not to
mention the space you've set aside for swap space and maybe a spare root
partition, and, well, the list goes on.

	The point is, it's all how you look at it.
-- 
Roy Smith, {allegra,cmcl2,philabs}!phri!roy
System Administrator, Public Health Research Institute
455 First Avenue, New York, NY 10016

"you can't spell deoxyribonucleic without unix!"