Description du projet
Présentation d’une solution de stockage de données ADN
Grâce à l’IdO, les technologies informatiques et de communication jouent un rôle de plus en plus important dans nos vies, mais nous produisons des quantités colossales de données qui pourraient bientôt être trop importantes pour notre offre de stockage. Avec une prévision de 175 zettaoctets de données produites d’ici 2025 et seulement 20 % d’entre elles pouvant être stockées, le manque d’espace représente un risque majeur pour l’infostructure et la sécurité numériques. En outre, les centres de stockage de données actuels étant des sources majeures de CO2, il est urgent de trouver des solutions de stockage alternatives. Le projet DATANA, financé par l’UE, entend répondre à ce besoin en introduisant une solution brevetée qui permettrait d’utiliser l’ADN comme espace de stockage efficace, durable et abondant.
Objectif
BioSistemika is developing a DNA data writing technology, which is addressing the growing global problem of insufficient storage supply of the escalating world’s production of digital data. By 2025, the worldwide production of data will grow to 175 zettabytes, which is 10 times the amount of data humanity produced in 2017. The gap is rapidly widening and we will not be able to store more than 20% of produced data by 2025, a scenario which poses a serious risk to our entire digital ecosystems and digital safety. Today, digital data is predominantly stored in large datacentres that are a major contributor of CO2 emissions and a growing environmental concern. This even further promotes the urgent need of our society to shift the paradigm towards more sustainable storage technologies.
DATANA is a patented innovation that enables this shift by utilizing DNA as an abundant, sustainable, and stable solution for the storage of data. As such, DNA has a lifespan of 1000+ years and the capacity to hold 20-million times more data per gram of substance than any other existing storage technology. Due to the high costs of DNA synthesis, the utilization of DNA for data storage is today still too expensive and time consuming to be used commercially. DATANA solves this issue by using a patented data encoding algorithm and a proprietary liquid handling system that reduces the volumes of DNA synthesis to picolitre range (one billionth of a milliliter). By doing so, it enables economically viable DNA storage of data for the first time. This represents a remarkable breakthrough and a major stepping stone for humanity, as it enables us to encode data into DNA at a cost comparable to the storage media used today.
The project goal is to further optimize and scale-up our technology, which will allow for the demonstration of its potential at a commercially relevant scale and enable commercialization on the global data storage market by 2023.
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SME-2b - SME Instrument (grant only and blended finance)Coordinateur
1000 Ljubljana
Slovénie
L’entreprise s’est définie comme une PME (petite et moyenne entreprise) au moment de la signature de la convention de subvention.