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Wednesday, April 27, 2016

Microsoft Buys Into DNA Data Storage (ieee.org)

More than 2.5 exabytes of data is created every day, and some experts estimate that 90% of all data in the world today was created in the last two years. 

Clearly, storing all this data is becoming an issue. One idea is DNA data storage, in which digital files are converted into the genetic code of four nucleotides (As, Cs, Gs, and Ts). 

Microsoft just announced that it's testing out this idea, getting synthetic bio company Twist Bioscience to produce 10 million strands of DNA that encode some mystery file the company provided.

 Using DNA for long-term data storage is attractive because it's durable and efficient. 

  For example, scientists can read the genome from a woolly mammoth hair dating from 20,000 years ago.

 I am real skeptical and cynical about this.

God's storage system is God's.

You mess with it and your gonna get burned.

 https://biodesign.asu.edu/news/fast-low-cost-dna-sequencing-technology-one-step-closer-reality


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