Microsoft tested data storage in the industrial DNA

Microsoft tested data storage in the industrial DNA

Microsoft tested data storage in the industrial DNA

Bio Science held Twist Twist Bioscience Inc. competent in the field of biology and industry DNA Synthetic DNA industrial agreement under which the sale of 10 thousand industrial thread of DNA to Microsoft Corp. which seeks to test the possibility of using genetic material in the data storage. Twist the company reported that one gram of DNA, capable of storing 1 Zeta bytes, equivalent to one billion terabytes of data.

The use of DNA experience in data storage is not the first of its kind, which has already been in 2013 conducting this experiment to store 2.2 beta bytes (2200 terabytes) of MP3 audio files. It estimated at the time he could to keep the data for at least 500 years, making it an ideal choice for archiving data in the event of proven success.

The key challenges in this experiment is the process of writing and reading data from DNA, where it is the writing process by Twist company through special strands of DNA that are produced by the company's machine was built by the same company. The read data is up by genetic sequencing process Genetic Sequencing.

According to the company Twist, each DNA base cost the industry 10 cents, the company seeks to be reduced to 2 cents, is worth mentioning that the genetic sequencing costs declined during the last twenty years from $ 3 billion to $ 1000.

These prices, although declining, but it still suggests that the use of DNA commercially storage is still some way off, at the same time, Microsoft said that initial tests in coordination with a twist has shown the ability to read data from DNA successfully, and if the reduce the cost of this technology, it means that the ability to technology to archive data on the long-term production would be possible.