Biocodicology - A Deeper Dive

[Mark Knowles]

Hope this helps and happy to answer any other questions anyone may have.

Thanks for answering questions.

I was curious as to how fast DNA degrades. I found the following article:

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To what extent can we expect that human or animal DNA from the time of the manuscript's construction has survived to the present day such that there are long enough strands of DNA even if incomplete that they would be suitable for sequencing? (I assume that even if strands are incomplete if they are long enough DNA sequences generated from separate strands can be combined to generate a full sequence.)

Is "touch" DNA likely to degrade much much faster?