Microsoft introduced an automated DNA data storage system that could one day replace optical storage systems such as Facebook's Blue-ray cold storage.
Microsoft believes that synthetic DNA could be the next big step in long-term data storage, since only one gram of DNA is capable of storing 215 petabytes data for 2.000 years. If released publicly, technology could significantly reduce the space required to store the rising world data.
Microsoft researchers, Microsoft founder Paul Allen, and the department school of computing science at the University of Washington managed to build a complex system to create the world's first automated DNA storage device.
Using a first proof-of-concept DNA storage device, the researchers demonstrated the write and read capabilities by encoding the word 'hello' into DNA fragments.
The bench-top unit costs about 10.000 dollars but researchers believe it could be built at a third of the cost by removing sensors and actuators.
Η unit, described in Nature, it consists of computers with software codificationς και αποκωδικοποίησης που μεταφράζουν άσσους και μηδενικά σε τέσσερις fundamentals of DNA: A, C, T, G. There is also a DNA synthesis unit and a DNA preparation unit, between which is the space where the DNA is stored.
"Our main goal is to get a system into production that, to the end user, will look very much like any other service storage cloud. Τα bits θα αποστέλλονται σε ένα κέντρο δεδομένων και θα αποθηκεύονται. Στη συνέχεια θα εμφανίζονται ξανά μόνο όταν το θέλει ο πελάτης” ανέφερε η Karin Strauss, ερευνήτρια του project.
____________________
- Focus Mode by Google: what it is and how to turn it on
- Facebook: millions of codes in plain text
- Google announced Stadia, an online gaming service
- Google plus Save your data before 31th March