How to store data on DNA?

Can a file be stored on DNA? What would be the advantages of such storage? And what developments can we expect in the future? All these answers in 12 minutes!

0:00 - Introduction
2:00 - Inspiration from life, DNA
3:24 - Storing files
7:35 - A technology under development
10:51 - Conclusion

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Calculations and sources of the figures :

0:46: 100ZB for an ADSL speed of 20Mb/s = 1.2 billion years
0:54: DVD of 1.2mm and 8.5GB, approximately 10^13 DVD for 100ZB or 12 million km
2:21: human genome of 3 billion base pairs, not including redundancies = 6Gb ~ 1GB
2:56: ~10µm core containing ~1GB: 10^15GB/m^3. SD card of ~100mm^3 containing 1TB: 10^10GB/m^3
6:39: For 100-1000 ZB, need 1000-100000 capsules of 100mm^3 each containing 10-100PB, i.e. a volume of 100-10000cm^3 ~ shoebox
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This video is narrated by Octave Masson.

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Alessandro Roussel,

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[ScienceClicEN]

I'd like to make it clear that I don't believe in technosolutionism, in the sense that I don't think such a technology will solve our problems: although it may help, above all we need to be more sober in our relationship with digital technology, and in particular we must avoid storing data unnecessarily as much as possible. We discussed this issue, among others, with Marc Antonini, with whom I co-wrote the video.

[whyalwaysmeh]

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[lucasagua]

im a molecular biologist, i discovered your channel a few days ago and you are already my favorite channel, please keep up the biology videos!

[_-_]

Was not ready for the fluent baguette in the beginning !
Bien fait 🇫🇷 !

[MulengaMwinsa]

Another iconic and momentous video from science clic. Great work brother, keep it up.

[Posesso]

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[_MdTasnimulKhairTousif-jkrs]

It makes me want to scream out loud in joy. During my undergraduate course, I was taught about a few bio inspired comuting algorithms, but using bio inspired storage is completely mind blowing concept.

[juggadaaku]

“Hey you brought the hard drive?”

“Yep” _inserts finger in the usb slot_

[youramazingvulptexwife]

I can't wait for solid state bacteria for data storage!

[Shreysoldier]

As an aspiring theoretical physicist and also who loves biology, especially DNA and genetics, I love your channel. Also you have shown the mathematics of relativity is another W

[yogafrogz]

Why does every video on this channel absolutely blow my mind?

[praneelpathak]

I just wanted Alessandro to know that he is currently one of the best content creators on YouTube in the science community. But I think he already gets many comments like that, so I'm going to give few suggestions too:
1. Making complex topics simple by animation and slow voice is your strength. Don't lose that.
2. Try to upload slightly frequent. I know you don't have a large team but still upload the fastest you can.
3. Please do a playlist on the mathematics of Quantum Physics just like your playlist on mathematics on theory of relativity.
4. Please make videos on interesting topics of mathematics too, not just physics.
5. Consider making a video on quantum computing too!

[Memfyy]

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[SuperImPrOv]

Seriously, those pronunciations in the beginning were wildly impressive. Good shit.

[russellsantana]

This channel has to be one of the best on YouTube. I just watched a PBS Nova video before this one and, while perhaps Nova is directed to a wider audience, its content is so much less informative and enjoyable than ScienceClic.

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This is so high quality a video that I’m scared of having to make something of this standard once I get to university

[beabzk]

This was a very good video as always. It has yet again widened my view of the world. Thanks for maintaining such a quality. I would also like to point out that your voice is so comfortable to listen.

[spadeyspacely]

A life long buddy and I have always had long conversations about abstract things. Neither one of us have much education in the topics beyond complete fairytale theory, but we just enjoy imagining the abstract. A handful of years ago started our conversations of wondering how we may get ourselves to walk and experience another planet. In our current form, I don’t believe it’s possible. My first curiosity was whether or not we could “store” and compress the human conscious and how large would it be in terms of fitting it on a medium. Could we create a consciousness, store it, extract it and read it? Next the thought was getting a 3D print machine on to a probe that could “print a body” in a Boston Dynamics manner, and final implementing the extracted conscious into the robot. It’s awesome to think we’re seeing YouTube videos pop up about ideas we’ve wondered about for years, and even experiencing real life abilities of doing such this like storing simple data on DNA.

Even with the idea of Neural Link, it would even be awesome to think of booting into the conscious of a mechanism that we put on our planet of interest and control it from a craft we put close enough to contact. Anyway, complete fairy tale stuff, but vids like this open up the sci-fi flood gates

[miykael]

One of my favorite channels on this planet, please make more content