This is very interesting, have we just discovered a building block of
nano-storage?
Cheeni
Link: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/03/01/0113240
Posted by: samzenpus, on 2007-03-01 05:08:00
[1]PetManimal writes "Computerworld has a story about a new technology
developed by Keio University researchers that creates [2]artificial
bacterial DNA that can carry more than 100 bits of data within the
genome sequence. The researchers claimed that they encoded "e= mc2
1905!" on the common soil bacteria, Bacillius subtilis. The
bacteria-based data storage method has backup and long-term archival
functionality." The researchers say "While the technology would most
likely first be used to track medication, it could also be used to
store text and images for many millennia, thwarting the longevity
issues associated with today's disk and tape storage systems ... The
artificial DNA that carries the data to be preserved makes multiple
copies of the DNA and inserts the original as well as identical copies
into the bacterial genome sequence. The multiple copies work as backup
files to counteract natural degradation of the preserved data,
according to the newswire. Bacteria have particularly compact DNA,
which is passed down from generation to generation. The information
stored in that DNA can also be passed on for long-term preservation of
large data files."
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References
1. http://www.computerworld.com/blogs/blog/19
2.
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&taxonomyName=storage&articleId=9011945&taxonomyId=19&intsrc=kc_top
3. http://hardware.slashdot.org/login.pl
4. http://slashdot.org/faq/tags.shtml
