Researchers Store 200MB of Data on Molecular Strands (+Video)
Shane McGlaun | July 8. 2016
Once the scientists devise a method of scaling the technology up, DNA storage promises to allow you to store all the public data on the internet in a device the size of a shoebox or all the data in a massive data center in the size of a few sugar cubes.
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"UW Associate Professor Luis Henrique Ceze, in blue, and research scientist Lee Organick prepare DNA containing digital data for sequencing, which allows them to read and retrieve the original files." Source: http://www.computerworld.com/article/3093467/data-storage/dna-data-storage-record-broken-by-microsoft-university-researchers.html |
<more at http://www.slashgear.com/researchers-store-200mb-of-data-on-molecular-strands-08447541/; related articles and links: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3681159/The-breakthrough-mean-phone-never-run-space-Microsoft-sets-DNA-strand-storage-record.html?ITO=applenews (The breakthrough that could mean your phone will never run out of space again: Microsoft sets DNA strand storage record. Stored a government document, books and music video in DNA strand; Converted long strings of 1's and 0's in digital data into 4 basic DNA; Chopped data into pieces and stored by synthesizing tiny DNA molecules; To retrieve, they encoded the equivalent of zip codes and street addresses. July 8, 2016) and http://www.computerworld.com/article/3093467/data-storage/dna-data-storage-record-broken-by-microsoft-university-researchers.html (Microsoft, university researchers break DNA data storage record. July 8, 2016)>
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