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February 25, 2014, 12:00:30 AM
Last edit: February 25, 2014, 02:40:29 AM by the joint |
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I'm aware that lossless genetic data compression technology exists and is improving. However, I'm curious to know:
1) Can the entirety of data comprising an individual's genetic makeup be accurately compressed such that it meets the following criteria?:
a) All compressed markers (e.g. a marker might be information describing a nucleotide insertion, a genotype of a cell, etc.) must correspond to only one individual and no other.
b) Furthermore, these markers must provably correspond to the same individual over infinite time.
c) The markers themselves must be able to be encrypted, compressed, or altered in some way such that there would be a set of *new* markers, and these new markers must also provably correspond to one individual over infinite time, but cannot be (at least easily) traced back to the original markers.
2) If this can't be done for the entirety of data comprising an individual's genetic makeup (e.g. changes to an individual's genome over time make it impossible to provably link him to old markers), is there some specific set of genetic data that would work?
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