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Question: Have you ever heard of DNA data storage? If so, can you tell me how will it work, like how do you translate computer language data to DNA (ACGT) data? How do you actually make the DNA and how do you store the chromosomes?
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Asked by Lang to Ben, Lizzie, Francis, Max, Sian on 8 Mar 2018.Question: Have you ever heard of DNA data storage? If so, can you tell me how will it work, like how do you translate computer language data to DNA (ACGT) data? How do you actually make the DNA and how do you store the chromosomes?
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Lang commented on :
Does that mean… we might have organic storage drives in the future? Yuuuuuuucck!
Max commented on :
Who knows – maybe! It’s more likely, at least for now, that DNA data storage will be useful for long-term archives which we want to be really stable but we don’t access very often. These probably won’t be directly connected to your computer.
But last year, a company in Oxford designed a DNA sequencer the same size as a USB drive! A sequencer is the machine which reads out the sequence of letters in a DNA molecule, like reading the data on a hard drive. So maybe organic drives really are the future.