[2017-12-15] Intel to Apply Blockchain Mining to Genetic Sequencing

[Rick Nolan]

Yesterday the U.S. Patent released a patent application called “Blockchain System with Nucleobase Sequencing as Proof of Work”. In the application Intel’s inventors describe a type of computer called a sequence mining platform (SMP) which would identify the order or nucleobases in a deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) or ribonucleic acid (RNA)

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