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January 23, 2013

DNA Used to Store Computer Data

Charles Choi, Txchnologist


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You could say that exploring the frontier of data storage is in their genes.

Researchers working to store information in the form of DNA say they have developed a way to hold an MP3 file containing 26 seconds of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech, the text of all 154 of Shakespeare’s sonnets, Watson and Crick’s seminal paper on the molecular structure of nucleic acids and an image file on a piece of the material the size of a tiny dust particle.

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