Data Storage on DNA Can Keep It Safe for Centuries
▻http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/04/science/data-storage-on-dna-can-keep-it-safe-for-centuries.html
In two recent experiments, a team of computer scientists at the University of Washington and #Microsoft, and a separate group at the University of Illinois, have shown that #DNA molecules can be the basis for an archival storage system potentially capable of storing all of the world’s digital information in roughly nine liters of solution, about the amount of liquid in a case of wine.
The new research demonstrates that specific digital files can be retrieved from a potentially vast pool of data. The new storage technology would also be capable of keeping immense amounts of information safely for a millennium or longer, researchers said.