Harvard cracks DNA storage, crams 700 terabytes of data into a single gram

[DarkTower87]

A bioengineer and geneticist at Harvard’s Wyss Institute have successfully stored 5.5 petabits of data — around 700 terabytes — in a single gram of DNA, smashing the previous DNA data density record by a thousand times.
The work, carried out by George Church and Sri Kosuri, basically treats DNA as just another digital storage device. Instead of binary data being encoded as magnetic regions on a hard drive platter, strands of DNA that store 96 bits are synthesized, with each of the bases (TGAC) representing a binary value (T and G = 1, A and C = 0).
To read the data stored in DNA, you simply sequence it — just as if you were sequencing the human genome — and convert each of the TGAC bases back into binary. To aid with sequencing, each strand of DNA has a 19-bit address block at the start (the red bits in the image below) — so a whole vat of DNA can be sequenced out of order, and then sorted into usable data using the addresses.




http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/1...-a-single-gram

[Carozzeria]

Holy ****. I saw this on the news. I can't wait to see the interface.

[thread]

Nice.

10char

[Perkomate]

now to stuff it into a computer....

[Deluded]

Originally Posted by Carozzeria

Holy ****. I saw this on the news. I can't wait to see the interface.

Do you really want an answer to that?



Of course you do.

Mate, what's one interface where humans regularly exchange DNA samples with each other?



That's right, semen! Uploading will work as usual, but what about downloads?

Downloads...

[mimart7]

Originally Posted by Deluded

Do you really want an answer to that?



Of course you do.

Mate, what's one interface where humans regularly exchange DNA samples with each other?



That's right, semen! Uploading will work as usual, but what about downloads?

Downloads...

Actual picture of your personal pump?

[Deluded]

Originally Posted by mimart7

Actual picture of your personal pump?

Not an exact picture. My pump has one of those pumping balloons you see doctors use to measure blood pressure. I presume you'd be familiar with those than most of us.

Also:

Downloads tend to turn into kids. Do not want.

[mimart7]

Originally Posted by Deluded

Not an exact picture. My pump has one of those pumping balloons you see doctors use to measure blood pressure. I presume you'd be familiar with those than most of us.

Also:

Downloads tend to turn into kids. Do not want.

Also familiar with walkers, and portable oxygen tanks, too.