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OK. I promised a thread about the paper and promises must be kept.
Let's use this thread to talk about #DNAdatastorage in general and finish up with our work and some thoughts about the future of the field.
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Why use DNA to store data?
As the burden of the #BigData era on data storage infrastructure is becoming too heavy we need to explore alternatives.
DNA was optimized as an information carrier by billions of years of evolution. It's dense, stable, and energetically efficient.
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Back in 2012 we saw two important studies demonstrating MB scale data storage on synthetic DNA. @geochurch was the first with an elegant straight forward approach. @Nick_Goldman followed with a more robust encoding.
Since, others has shown encoding/technological improvements
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