Next-generation digital information storage in DNA. The future of Data storage technology.
How DNA can Store Entire world's Digital Information
The resolution is within our reach and to be more precise
within ourselves only.
Growing Rate of DATA
The way we are creating more and more data everyday in terms of
pictures, songs, videos, informational and whatnot, the memory cards and hard
disc drives will soon become insufficient for data storage. This has given a
chance to the scientists and information analyst's to tickle their brains to a little
more extent. Now experiments are being conducted almost every day, even though
we are not able to gain control of the growing amount of data. It’s going to
cause a Digital Information overload to our systems very soon if we do not
think over it and find a way out to preserve this huge amount of Digital data.
Even data that is stored in Cloud need some physical space to be preserved and
extracted whenever we need.
Imagine 2 billon people keeping 1GB data each every year in a
Cloud storage Service. Can you imagine the amount of data in 1 year to that
Storage Server?
Have you ever thought about the data that are stored in our
genes which we are caring within ourselves from years to decades, from
centuries to generations? All these information are the ones that decides how
should we look, our body and feature. How you are and what we are likely to do
in our lives depend totally on our DNA.
DNA Storage Technology
Yaniv Erlich and Dina Dealiski are the two young scientists of
the Columbia University and the New York genome centre have found the process
of keeping digital data within the DNA. They were successful to transfer and
store a computer operating system, a virus program, one 8 mm full movie and
many more data in just one gram of DNA. They also confirmed that a total of 215
petabyte of data was transferred and stored in just 1 gram DNA.
DNA DATA STORAGE CAPACITY
1 gm DNA = 215 petabyte
215 petabyte = 215 million GB
Now, this process of storing information in DNA has been tried
and tested earlier at different geographical locations over the world, but
difference is that when they extracted the data back from DNA, entire data
stored wasn't retrievable. Some parts of the data that was stored became
corrupt.
Yaniv stated that they have copied the data 9 times and entire
data was retrievable every single time. But, this is still a very costly way of
data storage. Data transfer to DNA system will cost approx $7000 and to
retrieve data back from the system is going to cost $2,000. But, according to
the scientist and researchers DNA storage system is the most natural and best
way to preserve information over thousands of years.
What my ordinary brain says is that what you get back from your
storage after several years is way more important than how much you can Store.
After all what you get back is all you can use. Scientists and researchers are
still working very hard to get this model into perfection.
