Could DNA be the possible future storage?

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DNA digital data storage is the process of encoding and decoding binary data to and from synthesized strands of DNA.
While DNA as a storage medium has enormous potential because of its high storage density, its practical use is currently severely limited because of its high cost and very slow retrieval process.

PROGRESS INTO DNA STORAGE

In March 2018, University of Washington and Microsoft published results demonstrating storage and retrieval of approximately 200MB of data. The research also proposed and evaluated a method for random access of data items stored in DNA. In March 2019, the same team announced they have demonstrated a fully automated system to encode and decode data in DNA.

Pictorial representation of DNA

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In June 2019, scientists reported that all 16 GB of Wikipedia have been encoded into synthetic DNA.

Hard drives v/s DNA

Hard drives may seem to be stable for now, but they aren’t. They don’t have a long shelf life. Thus, having a permanent way to store data is more important. DNA can be stable and used for large scale data storage. DNA is not more prone to data destruction.

Benefits And Downside To Dna Storing

The DNA has a lot of advantages when it comes to data storage. DNA works just like your hard drive. But instead of binary ones and zeros in digital data storage, DNA uses a quaternary base to store data. The DNA has the most dense storage scheme which is capable of storing 215 million gigabytes per gram. Thus, the DNA storage technique will definitely become the storage technology of the future. DNA is super compact and it can last hundreds of thousands of years in a cool, dry place. DNA won’t degrade over time like cassette tapes and CDs.

The important disadvantage of DNA storage is that reading and writing. DNA is a fairly slow process compared to other forms of data storage and it might not be suited where information is needed quickly. DNA storage can work best for archival purpose. DNA data storage is also more expensive than storing in hard drives. The longer you want your DNA to exist, the higher the cost. And the cost are ridiculously high.

The costs per MB were estimated at $12,400 to encode data and $220 for retrieval.

I speculate that upgrades in upcoming future may improve the quality of data storage in DNA and may lower the cost of encoding and decoding.

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