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Briefing
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- DNA Storage – MIT spinoff Catalog building machine that can write one terabyte of data per day, using 500 trillion DNA molecules
- Target Customers – Aims to build industrial-scale storage for IT companies, entertainment firms, and federal government in next few years
- Advantages – DNA storage is small, dense, easy to replicate, and can last for a millennia, compared to magnetic tape storage which takes up space and needs to be replaced every 10 years
- Sample Use – Can store over 500,000 movies ever created in DNA, take up a size of a sugar cube, and last 10,000 years
- Less Expensive Method – Catalog’s technique decouples process of writing DNA from process of encoding, lowering cost of DNA storage by arranging bits in multi-dimensional matrices, instead of storing one bit per one base pair, with cost expected to be competitive to tape storage in few years
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Accelerator
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Sector
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Government (excluding military), Information Technology, Media and Entertainment
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Organization
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Catalog, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Source
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Original Publication Date
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June 26, 2018
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