Next-generation digital information storage in DNA. The future of Data storage technology.

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.