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Years Of Human Genome Data Lost In UCSC Fire

Posted by timothy on from the no-backups-at-ben-stein's-alma-mater dept.

dsavitsk links to a New York Times article which reports that several years of data related to the human genome project have been lost in a fire at the University of California at Santa Cruz, seemingly with no backup.

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  1. No mention of Data ... by gus+goose · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Why must we assume that what was lost was data/computers.

    From my take on the article, it was physical strands of DNA / biological matter which was lost.

    gus

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    .. if only.