DNA: The next data storage revolution
https://www.techrepublic.com/article/dna-the-next-data-storage-revolution/Hyunjun Park: For the purposes of this discussion, data is any kind of information that we generate in the world. But, for storing purposes, for us, it's really a series of ones and zeros. It's just a long number of ones and zeros, binary data that you would normally use a computer to store with things like hard drives and flash drives. And we're now trying to store with a new medium, DNA
We're now using synthetic DNA to store this data, but we may in the future use organic DNA, but it's actually, if you think about it, it's the reverse. We're already using organic DNA in our bodies in all the organisms in the world. We're using that to store data already. That's the chromosomes, the DNA inside of your cells. That's storing information in a very digital manner, but we're trying to copy that scheme using synthetic DNA molecules that we mimic. We're now mimicking nature to store information using this new medium.
