Data Storage on DNA Can Keep It Safe for Centuries
John Markkoff | December 3, 2015
In two recent experiments, a team of computer scientists at the University of Washington and Microsoft, and a separate group at the University of Illinois, have shown that DNA molecules can be the basis for an archival storage system potentially capable of storing all of the world’s digital information in roughly nine liters of solution, about the amount of liquid in a case of wine.
According to the Los Angeles Daily News, Dr. Church is attempting to code the 1902 French silent film “A Trip of the Moon” (believed by many to be the first science-fiction movie ever made) onto an unusual, denser type of genetic material known as “unnatural DNA.”Unnatural DNA, the publication explains, was designed specifically to store high quantities of data and is different that the genes typically found in living organisms. With the financial support of film industry heavyweight Technicolor, Dr. Church’s lab is taking the hundreds of miniscule pixels that make up each image of a movie and assigning them a code based on color.
Source: http://www.redorbit.com/news/health/1113407670/scientist-im-going-to-code-a-film-into-dna-081215/
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| Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Trip_to_the_Moon |
<more at http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/04/science/data-storage-on-dna-can-keep-it-safe-for-centuries.html; related links: http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/134672-harvard-cracks-dna-storage-crams-700-terabytes-of-data-into-a-single-gram (Harvard cracks DNA storage, crams 700 terabytes of data into a single gram. August 17, 2012) and http://www.redorbit.com/news/health/1113407670/scientist-im-going-to-code-a-film-into-dna-081215/ (Scientist: I’m going to code a film into DNA. August 12, 2015)>
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