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Desoxyribonukleinsäure, kurz DNA, ist ein Biomolekül, das als Träger von Erbinformationen von allen Lebewesen fungiert. DNA-Stränge sind sehr kompakt und schwierig in der Handhabung, allerdings auch chemisch stabil. Der perfekte Speicher also? Das DNA-Start-up Catalog aus Boston, USA forscht zumindest in diese Richtung und kann nun auch einen riesigen Erfolg aufweisen.

Wie Cnet berichtet, ist es dem Unternehmen gelungen, den kompletten Text der englischsprachigen Wikipedia, rund 16 Gigabyte an Daten, auf DNA zu schreiben. Das Kunststück gelang mit einer Eigenentwicklung eines DNA-Schreibers. Und selbst wenn es eher unwahrscheinlich wirkt, dass unser Flash-Speicher bald durch DNA-Speicher ersetzt wird, glaubt das Unternehmen, dass die Technologie schon für einige Kunden zum Archivieren von Daten nützlich ist.

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Microsoft has partnered with a San Francisco-based company to encode information on synthetic DNA to test its potential as a new medium for data storage. 

Twist Bioscience will provide Microsoft with 10 million DNA strands for the purpose of encoding digital data. In other words, Microsoft is trying to figure out how the same molecules that make up humans' genetic code can be used to encode digital information. 

While a commercial product is still years away, initial tests have shown that it's possible to encode and recover 100 percent of digital data from synthetic DNA, said Doug Carmean, a Microsoft partner architect, in a statement.

Using DNA could allow massive amounts of data to be stored in a tiny physical footprint. Twist claims a gram of DNA could store almost a trillion gigabytes of data.

Finding new ways to store information is increasingly important as people generate more and more data in their daily lives, and as millions of connected IoT sensors start to come online.

Storing data in DNA is a lot easier than getting it back out
But a method bacteria use to swap genetic information could offer a way.
by Emerging Technology from the arXiv January 26, 2018

Humanity is creating information at an unprecedented rate—some 16 zettabytes every year (a zettabyte is one billion terabytes). And this rate is increasing. Last year, the research group IDC calculated that we’ll be producing over 160 zettabytes every year by 2025.

All this data has to be stored, and as a result we need much denser memory than we have today. One intriguing solution is to exploit the molecular structure of DNA. Researchers have long known that DNA can be used for data storage—after all, it stores the blueprint for making individual humans and transmits it from one generation to the next.

What’s impressive for computer scientists is the density of the data that DNA stores: a single gram can hold roughly a zettabyte.

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