DNA Fountain enables a robust and efficient storage architecture

• Published in: Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) Vol. 355; no. 6328; pp. 950 - 954
• Main Authors: Erlich, Yaniv, Zielinski, Dina
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States American Association for the Advancement of Science 03.03.2017; The American Association for the Advancement of Science
• Subjects: Algorithms; Architecture; Base Sequence; Computer architecture; Computers; Deoxyribonucleic acid; DNA; DNA - chemistry; Gene sequencing; Genetic testing; High-Throughput Nucleotide Sequencing; Information retrieval; Information storage; Information Storage and Retrieval - methods; Libraries, Digital; Methodology; Microbiology; Nucleotides; Oligonucleotides; Oligonucleotides - chemistry; Polymerase chain reaction; Retrieval; Robustness; Sequence; Stores

DNA is an attractive medium to store digital information. Here we report a storage strategy, called DNA Fountain, that is highly robust and approaches the information capacity per nucleotide. Using our approach, we stored a full computer operating system, movie, and other files with a total of 2.14...