To DNA, all information is equal

Information storage capabilities are key in most aspects of society and the requirement for storage capacity is rapidly expanding. In principle, DNA could be a high-density medium for information storage. Church and coworkers recently demonstrated how binary data can be encoded, stored in, and retri...

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Published inArtificial DNA, PNA & XNA Vol. 3; no. 3; pp. 109 - 111
Main Authors Sennels, Lau, Bentin, Thomas
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published United States Taylor & Francis 01.07.2012
Landes Bioscience
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binary encoding
Binding
Biology
Bioscience
bit
byte
Calcium
Cancer
Cell
Computer Storage Devices
Cycle
DNA
Genetic Code
Information Storage and Retrieval - methods
information storage in DNA
Landes
Organogenesis
Proteins
information storage in DNA
bit
DNA
byte
binary encoding
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Summary:Information storage capabilities are key in most aspects of society and the requirement for storage capacity is rapidly expanding. In principle, DNA could be a high-density medium for information storage. Church and coworkers recently demonstrated how binary data can be encoded, stored in, and retrieved from a library of oligonucleotides, increasing by several orders of magnitude the amount and density of manmade information stored in DNA to date. The technology remains in its infancy and important hurdles have yet to be overcome in order to realize its potential. However, DNA may be particularly useful as a storage-medium over long time-scales (centuries), because data-access is compatible with any large-scale DNA-sequencing and -synthesis technology.
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ISSN:1949-095X
1949-0968
DOI:10.4161/adna.22671