DNA Data Storage?

Oct 18, 2012, 09:00 AM by Michael Croft

Extreme Tech | George Church and colleague Sri Kosuri at Harvard have successfully stored 5.5 petabits of data — around 700 terabytes — in a single gram of DNA using the DNA as just another digital storage device.

October 18, 2012 | George Church and colleague Sri Kosuri at Harvard have successfully stored 5.5 petabits of data — around 700 terabytes — in a single gram of DNA. Using the DNA as just another digital storage device, Church and Kosuri synthesized DNA strands that use each base as a binary value: T and G = 1; A and C = 0. To read the data, just simply sequence it. Extreme Tech