Researchers at Twist Bioscience successfully encoded two songs in DNA: Miles Davis "Tutu" and Deep Purple’s “Smoke on the Water.” The company specializes in DNA synthesis and worked together with Microsoft and the University of Washington on this project. This technique of data storage is very promising because it allows for long-term archiving of storage. Most storage mediums can last only a few decades, but data embedded in synthetic DNA, under the right conditions, can be stored for hundreds or thousands of years, claim the Twist Bioscience team.
Encoding binary code into DNA requires a conversion between ones and zeros to the DNA language, represented by a sequence of four letters: A, C, T, and G.
“The amount of DNA used to store these songs is much smaller than one grain of sand,” said Karin Strauss, Ph.D., a senior researcher at Microsoft. “Amazingly, storing the entire six petabyte Montreux Jazz Festival’s collection would result in DNA smaller than one grain of rice.”
“With the unreliability of how archives are often stored, I sometimes worry that our future generations will be left without such access. I'm proud to know that the memory of this special place will never be lost.” - Said the jazz legend Quincy Jones.
It looks like in the near future digital technologies and biological research are going to merge, and maybe create a completely new way of processing and storing data. Can you imagine a blockchain running on synthetic DNA?
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What?? This is amazing!! Some scientists are making great progress by unifying more fields together and seeing ways on how everything is connected.
And they started with two great songs :)
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Yes, I'm still wondering how they read and convert back the data into a readable format such as an audio or video file. Maybe in the future computers would be half digital, half synthetic.
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For me discovering, or finding some information about how some technologies work is really a psychedelic experience
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Hahaha, I know what you mean. Stick around, I post regularly on #future and #technology
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I will :)
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What an incredible idea. Forget the Blockchain, I'm into DNA chains now :)
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I don't see the point of this if it cant reproduce itself.
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You see no point in long-term data storage?
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I saw a documentarie few days back called transhumanism, it also spoke of this topic and that they could potential store an huge amount of data on DNA.
Very cool and at the same time a bit scarry how far they have come with technologie.
Have a nice day!!
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This can revolutionize how we deal with data.
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The trick is to keep the least amount of data while improving on previous versions. A bit like instincts.
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Least amount? That does not make sense, what we need is the max amount of storage on the smallest possible scale.
Human data production is growing verry fast.
We produce more data in 2 days then we did the rest of human history.
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Maybe I worded that comment badly. If you just store everything without using it, no one will bother to look at it. It has to become law, process or instinct to be useful.
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"Data" production is not just humans storing their video's and songs.
Data in this century is everthing and anyone.
And no one needs to look at the "data" for it to become usefull.
Nobody is watching the blockchain like a movie, no one is listening to the blockchain as music.
Yet it is data.
And we do use it.
But i know what you mean, for personal use limitless amounts of storage is not needed.
But we could sure use some extra haha!!
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I still think it doesn't matter how much data is produced, every system has ways of sorting through it. This website for example is a blockchain explorer which uses social media techniques to remove quantitative data, so we only see what's relevant.
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Many storage mediums hit their limit. And when there is no place for further improvement, people just try something different. Last year a HD vinyl technology was made, improving 30% more fidelity in the sound, but that's it. It's just an old technology. And frankly, almost no one has ever heard of HD vinyl.
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That is so awesome. I am very grateful for that! Love it.
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Grateful for what?
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There is a book from Peter Watts called Echopraxia.
The protagonist is 22nd century biologist who find a message from aliens in the DNA of desert animal…
https://g.co/kgs/2hTpT9
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