Scientists store some Shakespearean sonnets and some of Martin Luther King, Jr. 's "I Have a Dream" speech encoding for DNA - a process that could preserve those words famous for millennia. The staff at the European Bioinformatics Institute is the first to try a new approach to store data. Harvard team is about 700 terabytes of data stored digitally in one gram of DNA last year.
Researchers at the European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) on Wednesday announced their success to store data with DNA encoding. The system could stand the test of time - thousands of years, maybe.
This method for archiving data may make it possible to store 100 million hours of high-definition video in a cup of DNA, according to the scientists, and given the trend towards Big Data 'may be advanced. You could hold a gram of DNA information as much as more than a million CDs.
This method for archiving data may make it possible to store 100 million hours of high-definition video in a cup of DNA, according to the scientists, and given the trend towards Big Data 'may be advanced. You could hold a gram of DNA information as much as more than a million CDs.
Unlike existing methods of data storage - all of which are relatively limited life spans - DNA has proven it can survive, literally, for ages. Like anything physical carbon-based DNA can be deleted, but it happens to be much more sturdy than paper or tape, and can not easily be damaged by electromagnetic fields.
"We already know that DNA is a strong way to store information, we can remove from wooly mammoth bones - going back thousands of years - and make sense of it," said Nick Goldman EMBL-EBI. "It is also extremely small, compact, and does not need any power for storage, shipping and keeping it easy."
DNA might have an advantage over many existing methods of storage.
While the tape is the cheapest storage media, performance is explained Fang Zhang, storage analyst at iSuppli IHS. Would Analyzing Big Data using tape to take much longer, compared with SSD and HDD. Depending on how often it is used, it may wear out tape.
"We already know that DNA is a strong way to store information, we can remove from wooly mammoth bones - going back thousands of years - and make sense of it," said Nick Goldman EMBL-EBI. "It is also extremely small, compact, and does not need any power for storage, shipping and keeping it easy."
DNA might have an advantage over many existing methods of storage.
While the tape is the cheapest storage media, performance is explained Fang Zhang, storage analyst at iSuppli IHS. Would Analyzing Big Data using tape to take much longer, compared with SSD and HDD. Depending on how often it is used, it may wear out tape.
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While it is very likely that the words would William Shakespeare never
be lost, 154 sonnets of the Bard to be spelled out using DNA. The audio file is part of Martin Luther King, Jr. 's 1963 "I Have a Dream" speech is also encoded.Could be stored in the DNA allow those famous words to live on for eons."[This
is] extremely durable for living things tagging - tagging could
overcome generations," said Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the
Enderle Group. "The
most obvious use would have created rights record in plant genetic
conservation and animal rights and cloning illegal / prevention copies."That is not to say that there are no hurdles to clear. In one case, scientists were developing a molecular code used the four letters - also known as "bases" of genetic material. Are the G, T, C and A - fairly limited alphabet. Then again consists of just 0 and 1 binary code, and serves as the basis for most computer languages."At
some point in the future, embed you might actually created notes on how
the plant or animal in the DNA," said Enderle TechNewsWorld. "In
the case of a weaponized biological agent, this could also be used to
better identify the source should be released, and you might be able to
brand a benign virus and use it to model how would such hostile spread of virus using a combination of labeled DNA and then sampling to track the spread of the population. "Information on the CodeThe key is to ensure that this data can be archived and also to preserve access to the code. There are many undeciphered writing systems may hold long lost information. However, EMBL-EBI researchers do not think this will be a problem.They are working to create a code that is error tolerant in molecular form. As long as someone knows the code, the data can be read back.Despite
concerns, DNA could be the storage method of the future, especially as
Big Data begins to us from the world of gigabytes your xeobytes."DNA storage represents a new paradigm," said James Canton, Ph.D., of the Institute for Global Futures. "In
life to generating data xeobytes, we face massive tsunami data. We are
looking at ways to store, encrypt and secure all of the data.""DNA represents one paradigm for the future," said Canton TechNewsWorld. "DNA shows as a platform for storage paradigm is emerging towards quantum mechanics. That's when things really change.
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