Storing digital data using synthetic DNA requires information to be encoded into nucleotide sequences and the corresponding molecules to be synthesized and stored in an appropriate environment. To ...

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For some data.table users, “dot-SD” is a bit of a mystery. But data.table creator Matt Dowle told me that it’s actually quite simple: Just think of it as a symbol representing “each group.” Let’s go ...

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