Quote from: uteroulin on April 24, 2014, 12:32:56 PM

Quote from: pekv2 on April 24, 2014, 12:28:02 PM

Quote from: goxed on April 24, 2014, 12:23:16 PM

Our dna sequencer routinely takes multiple 1/2 gig tiffs pictures of illuminated base-pairs every hour Wink

For how long has this been taking pictures? Could imagine you got Petabyte servers?

Challenge accepted: I'm 25 and roughly 3 months = 365*25+90 = 9215 days * 24 h = 221160 h * 500mb (assuming it takes only 1 picture, I know it's not) = 110580000 MB / 1000 = 110580GB / 1000 = 110,58 PB

here read this pdf for how the sequencer works. http://lhmg.amu.edu.pl/text/sequencing/Primary%20analysis.pdf