Russia Plans To Build World First DNA Databank of All Living Things

Posted by samzenpus on Monday December 29, 2014 @08:33AM from the all-in-one-place dept.

An anonymous reader writes Researchers from Moscow State University plan to build a database that will house the DNA of every creature known to man. The University has secured a $194 million grant for the project dubbed "Noah's Ark." The gigantic "ark," set to be completed by 2018, will be 430 sq km in size, built at one of the university's central campuses. "It will enable us to cryogenically freeze and store various cellular materials, which can then reproduce. It will also contain information systems. Not everything needs to be kept in a petri dish," MSU rector Viktor Sadivnichy says.

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$194 million by Anonymous Coward · 2014-12-29 08:36 · Score: 2, Funny

So 78 sextillion rubles then?
1. Re:$194 million by Rei · 2014-12-29 08:45 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  You took too long to post, it's up to 79 sextillion now. No wait, 80.
  
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In soviet russia by Anonymous Coward · 2014-12-29 08:41 · Score: 2, Funny

ark builds you!
Re:Kind of big by K.+S.+Kyosuke · 2014-12-29 09:05 · Score: 4, Funny

Refrigerated storage of samples? They'll probably just a build a wall around a 430 km^2-sized area in Northern Siberia and call it a day. ;-)

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