[LINK] - Harvard cracks DNA storage, crams 700 terabytes of data into a single gram

Antony Barry antonybbarry at me.com
Mon Aug 27 16:39:11 AEST 2012


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On 23/08/2012, at 9:52 AM, Paul Brooks <pbrooks-link at layer10.com.au> wrote:

> I sure hope those DNA sequencer manufacturers can scale up production volumes while
> designing it all into a System-on-chip costing 50c per unit quick smart!

But where do you keep the DNA? Maybe not in a device but a living organism. You could use retro viruses to write to the DNA and the sequencer to read it and keep guinea pigs for backup storage. Ongoing back up of the data is a by product of breeding. Not only is there no problem of long term archival storage but you also get a good protein source, or for the squeamish and vegetarians nice pets.

Tony



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