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>The Department of Defense's own DNA database (DoDSR)

The reality of this is that it's just a big ass warehouse deep in the farmland of Virginia which houses unprocessed tubes of DNA. Its like the end of Raiders of the Lost Ark.

Sounds nefarious but it is actually a goldmine for genetics research.



There’s a movie plot in there somewhere.


Turns out even genetic databases need an index.


As noted in the original comment, currently DoDSR can only be used for nominative sampling aka you have a name and want a known generic sample (and you have a federal or military judge allowing it). The limitations of the medium / storage means it can't practically be used beyond that.




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