The Genographic Project

There are many scientific and technological advances necessary to accomplish the Genographic Project and they all require state of the art electronic equipments and devices. The most vital equipment of them all, DAR (DNA Analysis Repository), a substantial information technology capable of securing, storing the largest amount of data. DAR also makes the data available for analysis in as many ways as possible. It already warehouses enormous amounts of information with over a terabyte of available storage, and will grow as the project expands, with the ability to integrate the latest toolsets and data mining capabilities as they come online. Researchers certainly could not have been able to accomplish this project 25 years ago let alone 50 or 100 years ago. I say this because the technology present today was not available during those years. Only 25 years ago did the basic computers enter the market and be available to consumers. 50 years ago, the only computers present were those large ones that would fit in the whole room and was used for military purposes and other computers like ENIAC just did calculations. If we didn’t even have proper computers 50 years ago one can imagine how behind we were technologically 100 years ago.

The timing is important in a way since these discoveries might help us greatly in many aspects of our lives from history, geography, science and health. Nowadays we hear a lot of issues about cloning and various other issued pertaining to the health and medical field. One of those major issues especially in India which deals with the stem cells present in the umbilical cord at birth and in the bone marrow. It’s said that these stem cells can be used to create and regenerate cells. So knowing a lot about our past and our DNA history can truly help us cross a milestone in medical history.

Overall it’s truly an important project that can effect society in a whole in various different ways as its timing is pretty much perfect due to the enormous growth in technology.