[JunkDNA]

What would be exciting is if the bases had properties that made them amenable to easy read operations using non biological means. Currently it takes 1 - 3 days fort a DNA sequencer to read what is effectively a few gigabytes of data in a human DNA sequence. That is painfully slow for any practical use. However if we had DNA bases that had atomic properties that could interact with some sort of electronic device, we might be able to engineer a sequencer that is quite easy and cheap. In fact, we might even be able to design an enzyme that translates regular DNA into a synthetic form for easy sequencing (similar to how RNA polymerase turns DNA to RNA)