Bioengineers convert their files to .DNA format and store it in synthetic "amber"
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- Опубліковано 23 чер 2024
- DNA stores information about our protein, but we can use it to encode all sorts of information! Can it be competitive as a long-term archival format? Or are these MIT engineers just doing it for the Jurassic Park memes?
Article - "Reversible Nucleic Acid Storage in Deconstructable Glassy Polymer Networks" doi.org/10.1021/jacs.4c01925
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Thanks for this great summary of our paper!
Deoxyribonucleic acid for the deoxyribonucleic acid god!
Also, I love that they used DNA as data storage for Apollo in Horizon Zero Dawn.
0:43 a nucleotide pair encodes 1 of 4 states so it's actually log2(4) = 2 bits of information
Thanks for calling it out. I was about to say that.
I'm wondering, if we can make some kind of organic polymer, with a backbone, holding some kind of base capable of making H-bonds with the major groove of DNA base pair in one side of the alpha carbom, and some organic groups akin to those used in organic electronics in another, such that for different base-pair, these organo-electronic group will conduct slightly different voltage. In such a case, we can actually retirve information from DNA regularly. We might be able to address each base-pair just like each memory cell is addressed in RAM. The long polymer wrapped around DNA might slow down DNA degradation even further.
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