Research in the field of new media are now almost all large corporations. But the research group Microsoft Research went, I think, the farthest. Last year, the developers said they wanted to use DNA to store information. And according to MIT Technology Review, then it will happen in 3 years when they will launch a system that will allow users to remotely store data on DNA-carriers.
Now Microsoft have partnered with Twist Bioscience. This office specializiruetsya in the production of artificial DNA. The developers believe that their media will be comparable in size with the copier Xerox 70-ies.
The use of DNA as a carrier of information in fact makes sense: this molecule has an extremely high recording density. For example, a spokesman for the Semiconductor Research Corporation,
“Data on DNA can be recorded with very high density. So, all the movies created in the history of cinema, when writing DNA will not exceed the size of a conventional lump of sugar. Therefore, we drew attention to this property. Moreover, the use of artificial DNA solve the problem of rapid growth in the volume of stored information and permanently get rid of the development of new methods of storage.”
In addition, the researchers plan to expedite the recording of information into DNA. If now the speed is 400 bytes per second, soon this figure should grow to 100 megabytes per second. Despite the fact that there are already ready prototypes of DNA storage media, the widespread dissemination of this technology are hampered by the high price. In Microsoft believe that the cost of storing data on DNA is expected to decline at least 10 000 times in order to technology “stepped into the masses.”
Microsoft creates cloud-based storage system based on DNA
Vladimir Kuznetsov