{"id":56,"date":"2005-09-22T21:01:41","date_gmt":"2005-09-23T04:01:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/outflux.net\/blog\/archives\/2005\/09\/22\/decompiling-myself\/"},"modified":"2005-09-22T21:06:00","modified_gmt":"2005-09-23T04:06:00","slug":"decompiling-myself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/outflux.net\/blog\/archives\/2005\/09\/22\/decompiling-myself\/","title":{"rendered":"decompiling myself"},"content":{"rendered":"

Figured I should try to decompile myself. The first step would be get a full dump<\/a> of my DNA base pairs as letters. Looks like that’s not going to be easy<\/a> though. Even a DNA stain takes a lot of steps<\/a> (and I’ll probably never be allowed to do the radioactive steps myself). The real goal here is that with current US law, I should copyright myself (I’m the first performance of the specific base pair “idea”) and possibly patent myself (my methods are a unique variation of other methods).<\/p>\n

Obviously this doesn’t take into account my immune system or my memories, but I figure it’s a good start. At like just under 10 billion base pairs, that’s a 10GB program. I think Inkscape<\/a> is only 45M or so, and that’s not even counting shared libraries.<\/p>\n

Since I don’t really want to share my DNA with a company (I’ve got to be the first to copyright it), I wanted to find out what it would take to sequence at home. Since a sequencer is in the $100k price range, that’s not really going to happen. Talking to my NIH<\/a>-employed friend techne23<\/a>, she suggested a possible “cheap” way to do it would be in pieces, doing PCR<\/a>s on specific SNP<\/a>s, and send those out for sequencing to get back base pair letters. For example, on a gene, the red ones here<\/a> are considered “interesting”. The PCR machines can be had for cheap<\/a>, too.<\/p>\n

So, in summary:<\/p>\n