the way geyer described this, each of these pieces of rna with a bar code on it could be thought of as a book with a cover on it that had an isbn number on it. however this would represent an ungodly number of piles of the library of congress. this is many many libraries of congress in some gigantic pile of books and the books are americanized. they have never been met. nobody knows what's between the covers and they are in a huge pile. they are not lined up on the shelves in proper order. so in the sequencing koritha technician took about a tenth of that raindrop, and amount of liquid something like a drop of moisture that hits your face when you're walking through the fog and put that on a glass slide called a flow cell. in the flow cell is put into the business end of one of the sequencing machines and then lasers shine on the flow cell while compounds, liquid compounds are washed over the flow cell. in a period of 24 hours they get the sequence of more than a billion of these little pieces of rna. now they have a huge amount of data all in a computer and it has been put into these