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Microsoft Buys Into DNA Data Storage (ieee.org)
the_newsbeagle writes: More than 2.5 exabytes of data is created every day, and some experts estimate that 90% of all data in the world today was created in the last two years. Clearly, storing all this data is becoming an issue. One idea is DNA data storage, in which digital files are converted into the genetic code of four nucleotides (As, Cs, Gs, and Ts). Microsoft just announced that it's testing out this idea, getting synthetic bio company Twist Bioscience to produce 10 million strands of DNA that encode some mystery file the company provided. Using DNA for long-term data storage is attractive because it's durable and efficient. For example, scientists can read the genome from a woolly mammoth hair dating from 20,000 years ago.
Or an infectious virus?
DNA isn't durable, it is duplicated on a massive scale. This why it is possible to read DNA from a mammoth hair - originally there were millions of copies in that hair, couple of these copies survived this long.
can't wait for the annual Windows 10 update via injection!
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How long until they start checking people's DNA and say "we have data that looks like a section of your DNA. We have copyrighted it, and you can no longer reproduce it - not in offspring, and not in your own cells. You can either stop (by killing yourself) or take a monthly subscription to license it. Have a nice life or drop dead - your call."
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DNA storage is easily damaged by viruses and bacteria. This won't work. Even the mammoth hair is contaminated by viruses and bacteria so the genome really isn't intact.
Symantec will go into the pharmaceutical business? ;)
At least you can see them, unlike your delusions!
And Teh G "copies" books, reads e-mails, and sells you to the highest bidders.
And Apple has no idea what to do next. But buy its stock back.
Ancient mammoth DNA didn't persevere in casual ambient conditions. They were only able to retrieve genetic material because the animal's corpse had been preserved by permafrost. DNA storage of actual data would require cooling solutions an order of magnitude more intense than what is currently used to keep a data center running. Most people don't realize how much nucleic acid digesting enzymes are in our normal environment. A great deal of the sticky slimy residue generated copiously by our bodies are the chewed up DNA remnants of microbial organisms that our immune system keeps in check. This is to say nothing of the difficulty involved with reading/writing of said data. You DON'T want to go down that rabbit hole.
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how will they get the files to have sex?
Actually what I would be more worried about is how long will it be before someone's computer file turns out encode into a real virus and we have some new, nasty disease on our hands simply because some holiday photo produces the right DNA sequence for a new variant of Ebola.
Or maybe we don't need to store 3 pictures of every bite of food eaten by every millennial, or 15 selfies a day of each of them.
Captcha was Manure. Sounds about right.
Your claim to psychic powers of knowing what everyone else on Earth has seen, is the only delusion here.
Uh oh... did a disk de-frag and something new starting growing ... nope not tin whiskers.
We don't actually read the DNA like you think either from that mammoth hair. All we get are DNA snipets. We then use computers to look at all those and attempts to put them back into some kind of order that seems to make sense based on all the other DNA snipets we have seen before. In other words, it all works because we have this huge catalogue of DNA that we have looked at previously. That all falls apart once you have complete randomness. You would never be able to tell what piece comes next.
We were all warned a long time ago that MS products sucked, remember the Magic 8 Ball said, "Outlook not so good"
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"90% of all data in the world today was created in the last two years"
And most of it will not be readable 100 years from now, nor will it be missed.
This issue is a bit more complicated than you think.
Now we'll be able to eat the storage medium in order to survive the apocalypse, which wasn't possible with hard drives. Add to this a few corpsicles of frozen rich dead people and you are set for a while.
Non-Linux Penguins ?
Everyone that talks in generalizations is awesome.
Imagine the latency.
One of my recent jobs has been considering the requirements of storing genetic sequences digitally.... I guess now we'll just put the tissue sample in a box.
When did DNA become durable? Thats news to me.
Glass is durable.
Rock is durable.
DNA breaks down fairly quickly.
It may be durable in comparison to your dirt cheap commodity hard drives ... but it also isn't dirt cheap or commodity.
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Given it's Microsoft, all of our DNA source code will become, proprietary. Shortly after this there will be a GNU licensed version released that's several versions behind and less user friendly.
Back in 1995, this was emerging tech.
Your claim to psychic powers of knowing what everyone else on Earth has seen...
He is claiming the exact opposite, you religious pin head. People cannot see what other people are claiming to have seen, but people can see atheists.
If this goes to production int he future, people will have to fend off their data from 2 types of viruses. Software and physical.