Towards practical, high-capacity, low-maintenance information storage in synthesized DNA.

ABSTRACT: Digital production, transmission and storage have revolutionized how we access and use information but have also made archiving an increasingly complex task that requires active, continuing maintenance of digital media. This challenge has focused some interest on DNA as an attractive target for information storage because of its capacity for high-density information encoding, longevity under easily achieved conditions and proven track record as an information bearer. Previous DNA-based information storage approaches have encoded only trivial amounts of information or were not amenable to scaling-up, and used no robust error-correction and lacked examination of their cost-efficiency for large-scale information archival. Here we describe a scalable method that can reliably store more informa

SUBMITTER: Goldman N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3672958 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature