[Gllug] Biometrics?

[John Edwards]

On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 10:58:37AM +0000, Bernard Peek wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-03-23 at 08:10 +0000, Chris Bell wrote:
> > Hello,
> >    A report says that ID cards with biometrics may be a waste of effort. I
> > understand that the DNA double helix is enormous, and there can be huge
> > numbers of variations, so how big is a DNS ID record?
> 
> The amount of data in the whole genome is vast, so they don't store
> that. Instead they use what amounts to a hash function. 

But not of the whole, only of parts:
	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA_fingerprinting#STR_analysis


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