{"id":4769,"date":"2012-08-18T05:16:59","date_gmt":"2012-08-18T11:16:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=4769"},"modified":"2012-08-18T05:16:59","modified_gmt":"2012-08-18T11:16:59","slug":"harvard-cracks-dna-storage-crams-700-terabytes-of-data-into-a-single-gram","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=4769","title":{"rendered":"Harvard cracks DNA storage, crams 700 terabytes of data into a single gram"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A href=\"http:\/\/www.extremetech.com\/extreme\/134672-harvard-cracks-dna-storage-crams-700-terabytes-of-data-into-a-single-gram?onswipe_redirect=never\">Sebastian Anthony<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>A bioengineer and geneticist at Harvard\u2019s Wyss Institute have successfully stored 5.5 petabits of data \u2014 around 700 terabytes \u2014 in a single gram of DNA, smashing the previous DNA data density record by a thousand times.<\/p>\n<p>The work, carried out by George Church and Sri Kosuri, basically treats DNA as just another digital storage device. Instead of binary data being encoded as magnetic regions on a hard drive platter, strands of DNA that store 96 bits are synthesized, with each of the bases (TGAC) representing a binary value (T and G = 1, A and C = 0).<\/p>\n<p>To read the data stored in DNA, you simply sequence it \u2014 just as if you were sequencing the human genome \u2014 and convert each of the TGAC bases back into binary. To aid with sequencing, each strand of DNA has a 19-bit address block at the start (the red bits in the image below) \u2014 so a whole vat of DNA can be sequenced out of order, and then sorted into usable data using the addresses.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sebastian Anthony: A bioengineer and geneticist at Harvard\u2019s Wyss Institute have successfully stored 5.5 petabits of data \u2014 around 700 terabytes \u2014 in a single gram of DNA, smashing the previous DNA data density record by a thousand times. The work, carried out by George Church and Sri Kosuri, basically treats DNA as just another [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4769"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4769\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}