Do you know — 1 Gram of DNA can store 1,000,000,000 Terabyte of Data for 1000+ Years.

Just last year, Microsoftpurchased 10 Million strands of synthetic DNA from San Francisco DNA synthesis startup called Twist Bioscience and collaborated with researchers from the University of Washington to focus on usingDNA as a data storage medium.

However, in the latestexperiments, a pair of researchers from Columbia University and the New YorkGenome Center(NYGC) have come up with a new technique to store massive amounts of data on DNA,and the results are marvelous.

The duo successfully stored around 2mb in data, encodinga total number of six files, which include:

A full computer operating system An 1895 French movie "Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat" A $50 Amazon giftcard A computervirus A Pioneer plaque A 1948 studyby information theorist Claude Shannon

The new research, which comes courtesy of Yaniv Erlich and Dina Zielinski, has been published in the journal Science.

ButHow Did the ResearchersStore Digital Data on DNA?

Calling their process a "DNA Fountain," the researchers first compressed all the data into a single masterarchive and split it into short strings of binary digits,made up of ones and zeros.

Next, the duo used an "erasure-correcting algorithm called fountain codes"to randomly packaged the strings into droplets.Each droplet contains a barcode in the sequence thathelped the researchers reassembling the file.

The researchers then "mapped the ones and zeros in each droplettothe four nucleotide bases in DNA: A, G, Cand T," and ended up with a digital list of 72,000 DNA strands thatcontained the encoded data.



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This code was then sent in a text file to Twist Biosciences, the same DNA synthesis startup from which Microsoft purchased 10 Million strands of synthetic DNA last year, thatthen turned that digital information into biological DNA.

"Twoweeks later, they received a vial holding a speck of DNA molecules. To retrieve theirfiles, theyused modern sequencing technology to read the DNA strands,followed by software to translate the genetic code back into binary. They recovered their files with zero errors," the journal reads.

'Highest-DensityData-Storage Device Ever Created'

The researchers believe that DNA is the perfect storage medium – as it is ultra-compact and can last hundreds of thousands of years if kept cool and dry–and suggests this is the "highest-density data-storage device ever created."

Since the digital universe is large and by 2020 containing nearly as many digital bits as there are stars in the universe,the data will reach 44 zettabytes or 44 trillion gigabytes.

So,DNA data storage could help big organizations store an enormous amountof information in a way that one can still be able toread it in a hundred years.

However, cost is still an issue. The researchers spent around $7,000 to synthesize the 2MB of data and another $2,000 to read that data.

However, with the time this will change,so do not expect this technique to go mainstream anytime soon.

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phillsayo:
Do you know — 1 Gram of DNA can store 1,000,000,000 Terabyte of Data for 1000+ Years.

Just last year, Microsoftpurchased 10 Million strands of synthetic DNA from San Francisco DNA synthesis startup called Twist Bioscience and collaborated with researchers from the University of Washington to focus on usingDNA as a data storage medium.

However, in the latestexperiments, a pair of researchers from Columbia University and the New YorkGenome Center(NYGC) have come up with a new technique to store massive amounts of data on DNA,and the results are marvelous.

The duo successfully stored around 2mb in data, encodinga total number of six files, which include:

A full computer operating system An 1895 French movie "Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat" A $50 Amazon giftcard A computervirus A Pioneer plaque A 1948 studyby information theorist Claude Shannon

Great! They're now gonna turn us all into machines! Humans, storing data in their DNA? How Ridiculous!