DNA for Data Storage: What’s on your genes

DNAI ran into an interesting idea recently - Scientists are experimenting with the possibility of using DNA as an information storage medium. There seems to be a lot of work going into this topic as revealed by a quick google search. And it’s not just a vague theoretical exercise. Scientists have successfully written the equation e=mc2 1905′ on bacterial DNA.

Think of the sheer VOLUME of data that could be stored on our planet. . . Like one big giant harddrive - 100,000 * 10^x tetraBytes and counting.

I guess that makes India the worlds fastest growing storage sector :D . The aliens will be pleased.

On a related note, I also stumbled onto this youtube vid:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKdtmOjxiHw&eurl=

The video describes a technology that was under research in the 1980s - information storage at a molecular level. Amazing technology - which still sounds futuristic - and they were doing this even before I was born :) .

Read More:
Google Results for DNA Storage
E=MC2 on DNA
Youtube Vid on Molecular storage

2 Comments on “DNA for Data Storage: What’s on your genes”

karthik, March 16th, 2007 at 12:38 pm

On that note i hope there is a parallel research being done to create
DQL (DNA Query Language)….

Alternate, March 16th, 2007 at 5:10 pm

Lolz :) . Quite likely.

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