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1   CBOEtrader   2018 Nov 30, 1:26pm  

1984's wet dream
2   NuttBoxer   2018 Nov 30, 1:29pm  

Or it would put us all of us one excel copy/paste error away from being convicted of murder.

I've said this before but I'll say it again. I worked at Illumina on our first forensic sequencing platform, and after about 3 months on the project, the engineering lead said he never wanted his DNA anywhere near the system. Theory is one thing, but reality is VASTLY different.
3   Rin   2018 Nov 30, 1:39pm  

NuttBoxer says
Or it would put us all of us one excel copy/paste error away from being convicted of murder.

I've said this before but I'll say it again. I worked at Illumina on our first forensic sequencing platform, and after about 3 months on the project, the engineering lead said he never wanted his DNA anywhere near the system. Theory is one thing, but reality is VASTLY different.


And in this case, getting someone framed for a crime doesn't even involve planting a glove or a few drops of blood. It's as easy as database theft, which BTW, happens all across corporate America, and then, one can sequence potential frame ups, whenever they want.
4   tovarichpeter   2018 Nov 30, 3:31pm  

And in this case, getting someone framed for a crime doesn't even involve planting a glove or a few drops of blood. It's as easy as database theft, which BTW, happens all across corporate America, and then, one can sequence


Can you give us an example of when this has actually happened, in real life, not in your imagination.
5   Rin   2018 Nov 30, 4:02pm  

tovarichpeter says
And in this case, getting someone framed for a crime doesn't even involve planting a glove or a few drops of blood. It's as easy as database theft, which BTW, happens all across corporate America, and then, one can sequence


Can you give us an example of when this has actually happened, in real life, not in your imagination.


Since you have little imagination, outside of what others have told you, let me help you ...

The tissue samples are in the databases of companies like ancestry.com, me&23, along with other medical dbs. That's the starting point of this all.

This is called a new technology ... sequencing a full genome, circa $1K? And then, through dna polymerase chain reaction propagation, one needs to replicate that sequence at least 50000x to generate a worthy sample volume.

And thus, it's expensive to do it, outside of some hi-tech facilities right now. In a few short years, it gets cheaper and then soon, anyone can do it.

Planting evidence will be easy circa 2025.

And no, you don't need much of an imagination to figure that out.
6   Evan F.   2018 Nov 30, 5:11pm  

Rin says
And thus, it's expensive to do it, outside of some hi-tech facilities right now. In a few short years, it gets cheaper and then soon, anyone can do it.


PCR costs like $15 to do right now. A usable PCR machine will run you a couple hundred bucks.
7   Rin   2018 Nov 30, 5:46pm  

Evan F. says
PCR costs like $15 to do right now. A usable PCR machine will run you a couple hundred bucks.


Sure, but don't you need a full DNA sequence, not just snippets of one, to make the mass production useful?

But yes, if the fully stabilized and purified sample is available, then I see no reason why it can't be mass produced cheaply.

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