DNA Data storage

Description du projet

Utiliser l’ADN pour stocker efficacement d’énormes quantités de données

Chaque jour, nous stockons de grandes quantités de données sur différents supports. La bande magnétique, utilisée pour le stockage d’archives à long terme, est le plus durable de ces supports, mais ne peut conserver les données au-delà de 30 ans. Ce type de stockage nécessite en outre un climat contrôlé, des matières premières non durables pour sa production, de l’énergie électrique et beaucoup d’espace physique. Comme solution, le projet DNA DS, financé par l’UE, propose le stockage de données dans une molécule d’ADN. Plus efficace que tout support de stockage artificiel, l’ADN peut stocker plus de 450 pétaoctets dans un seul gramme de substance. La solution de haute technologie du projet pourrait réduire la taille des centres de données au contenu d’un seul flacon de liquide.

Objectif

According to Domo Inc., we were producing 2.5 quintillion bytes of data every day in 2017, and by 2020, it is estimated that for every person on earth, 1.7 MB of data will be created every second. This vast amount of data is stored on hard drives, flash drives and, for long-term archival storage, on magnetic tape. Even magnetic tape, the most durable of storage media, can preserve data no more than 30 years. What is more, the data archived on magnetic tape requires controlled climate (humidity and temperature), electrical energy, and a lot of physical space (huge data centres) to preserve the data, not to mention the necessary non-sustainable raw materials to produce the tape. BioSistemika has developed an innovative, high-tech solution to address these problems by storing digital data into the DNA molecule – the oldest, most efficient data storage medium in history. As a storage medium, DNA is incomparably more efficient than any of humanity’s artificial data storage media in nearly all aspects, capable of storing more than 450 petabytes (450 x 103 terabytes) in a single gram of substance, compared to 0,15 terabytes in a gram of the state-of-the-art LTO-8 magnetic tape by IBM (3 million-fold difference). This means that whole data centres could both be scaled down to the content of a single vial of liquid and be duplicated in a matter of hours with minimal to no costs. Furthermore, DNA was optimized to remain durable and intact within extremely variable environments by the forces of nature. It does not require electricity to preserve data and is resistant to most electromagnetic radiation and most other forms of degradation (e.g. temperature), thus making it the perfect medium to store and archive data. Our business model canvas, which sums up our project, is attached with this application.