The number of new digital data grew by 2.5 million gigabytes every day, according to MIT, added about 10 trillion gigabytes of existing digital data. All of these data – films, music, and others – are stored in large and bigger large data centers. This represents a growing problem because the world is a digital demand and archives grow.
Past research has highlighted DNA as a potential way to store large amounts of data without space requirements and costs equipped with data centers. MIT has built on the job in a newly published study, with researchers stating that all world digital data theoretically can be stored in a mug filled with DNA.
This is because of DNA’s high density, allowing it to accommodate a large number of data relative to its size. Even though we have previously seen examples of storing digital data such as text or images as DNA, this new job focuses on the important aspects of the beginner technology: Taking the info you want from a few pieces of DNA.
According to their new study, MIT researchers have shown this ability to use 6-micrometer silica particles save 20 images. The short DNA sequence is used as a label with file content, allowing researchers to succeed in attracting the individual images they want from the album saved by DNA.
Even though it might sound unusual, DNA offers many benefits when it comes to mass data storage and not only because of its high density. According to the researchers, the data stored in this way will be ‘very stable.’ MIT Professor of Biological Engineering Mark Bathe explained:
We need a new solution to save a large amount of data accumulated by the world, especially archive data. DNA is a denser of a thousand times from flash memory, and another interesting property is that once you make DNA polymers, it doesn’t consume energy. You can write DNA and then save it forever.
