To most of us, DNA stores the code of all living things.

But according to computer scientists, DNA may one day become the preferential storage medium for all things.

Earlier this month, a team of scientists at the University of Washington published a paper describing one of the first complete DNA storage systems that encodes, stores and retrieves digital images using strings of synthetic DNA molecules.

600 smartphones (or 10,000 gigabytes) worth of data (eg., images, video, email, etc.) could be stored in the pink smudge of DNA pictured here. Image credit: Tara Brown Photography/ University of Washington

This isn’t the first attempt at using the code of life to store digital data, but it's certainly unique. Here’s the kicker: the system supports random access — selectively reading only a desired file from DNA, rather than the entire database — a first in the field, according to the press release.

It’s like jumping from tape to CD — a quantum leap — but for DNA-based data storage, explains Dr. Luis Ceze, a computer scientist and engineer who led the study, in an interview with Singularity Hub.

“Imagine if Facebook had to look through every photo they have to find the one you asked to see!” agrees first author James Bornholt.

Random access, what we achieved, is critical to a practical storage system, he says...
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this justifies the accession about the coming 'mark of the beast' with which no man on earth can buy or sell.
Revelations 13 and revelation 14.
Anyone who takes will never entr d kingdom of God. SEE also Rapture and the great tribulation.