Storing Data 215,000 times more densely using DNA – NY Genome
Finding Genius Podcast
Richard Jacobs
4.4 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 22 May 2017
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
Losing data stored on flash drives, hard disks, USBs and on computer servers may become a thing of the past with DNA storage.
At NY genome, Dina has successfully managed to encode and decode data stored onto a strand of DNA. Incredible, but true.
This project has the possibility of storing 215,000 times more data in 1 gram of DNA, compared to a 1 Terabyte Hard Disk.
Unfortunately, the process is not ready for commercial use, and encoding costing roughly $7,000. Decoding plus reading the data costing about $2,000, and a $9k price tag isn't viable.
Will DNA storage ever be cost effective and retrievable quickly? That is for you to decide but don't forget how the first computer was even larger than the room you are in right now.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Almost Here, Almost Here, Round the Corner of Future Technology Podcasts with Richard Jacobs. |
| 0:08.0 | Future Technologies Hoyts to transform our lives for better or worse are the focus of this podcast. |
| 0:13.7 | Almost here means these technologies are now here and |
| 0:16.8 | starting to be used. |
| 0:18.2 | We're just around the corner. |
| 0:19.8 | From Bitcoin to artificial intelligence, |
| 0:22.1 | 3D printing, blockchain, virtual reality, and more. |
| 0:25.4 | Hi this is Richard Jacobs with Future Tech Podcast. I have Deena Zolinsky from the New York Genome Project or NYUome. |
| 0:34.0 | Dina, how you doing? |
| 0:35.0 | I'm good, how are you? |
| 0:36.0 | Good. |
| 0:37.0 | Thanks for connecting. |
| 0:38.0 | I appreciate it. |
| 0:39.0 | Can you tell folks what you're working on over at Columbia? |
| 0:42.0 | Sure. |
| 0:44.0 | So I work in an academic research lab in Yenev Erlich's lab, and we're at the New York Genome |
| 0:49.7 | Center and are affiliated with the Computer Science Department at Columbia University. |
| 0:55.0 | And we, honestly, we work on a bunch of different projects. |
| 0:59.0 | There's never a dull day. |
| 1:01.0 | I've been in the lab for six years and I can never come into a lab and say |
| 1:06.0 | there's nothing to do. We've always got a very diverse number of projects going on from |
| 1:11.6 | human genetics to storing data and DNA, |
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