Scientists use DNA to store MP3, holds 2.2 petabytes per gra

iNSaNeSaiNt · Jan 26, 2013

Further exploring the role biological processes could one day play in the evolution of technology, researchers from the European Bioinformatics Institute claim to have successfully encoded 154 Shakespeare sonnets and an MP3 of Martin Luther King's famed "I Have a Dream" speech into a single DNA strand -- or in other words about 739KB of information. Perhaps the most amazing part though, is researchers were able to read those files again with 100 percent accuracy. Will we eventually store our digital lives as strands of DNA?

In fact, DNA is so fantastically efficient, researchers believe they can cram about 2.2 petabytes of information into a single gram of DNA. "We recovered 757,051 bytes of information from 337 pg of DNA (above), giving an information storage density of ~2.2 PB/g (= 757,051/337 × 10-12)", the paper claims. That's remarkably better than today's storage technologies. By comparison, it would take several hundred 3.5-inch 4TB hard drives to match that kind of storage density.
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gtr0manc3r · Jan 28, 2013

Re: Scientists use DNA to store MP3, holds 2.2 petabytes per

That is crazy, 12K for 1 GB... well i suppose that in time it will be more feasible at a lower cost...

kidd_29 · Jan 30, 2013

Re: Scientists use DNA to store MP3, holds 2.2 petabytes per

that is crazy

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