How we can store digital data in DNA | Dina Zielinski

From floppy disks to thumb drives, every method of storing data eventually becomes obsolete. What if we could find a way to store all the world's data forever? Bioinformatician Dina Zielinski shares the science behind a solution that's been around for a few billion years: DNA.

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[iviewthetube]

This will give viruses a whole new meaning.

[lp]

Imagine decoding human or whatever creatures dna and finding actual data like pictures in it hinting towards other computerised civilisations existed thousands of years ago...

[NotionNationX]

Atleast I won't have to study anything anymore

[Rin-otww]

Groundbreaking discovery.. if only she'd spend more time in explaining in detail how sequencing results in digital data

[sbuprince]

Mind blowing! I wanna live pass 100 years, there's a lot of interesting innovation coming our way

[justinakers]

I love Ted talks. I’ve learned a lot by watching these.

[Zoza]

Timeless Technology, Great!!!.


And a good talk indeed!!..




Love it..

[reold]

Wow. Just wow. I saw a article on a company named "catalog" developing the next secondary storage device.

To learn more I youtubed. And here I am watching a 2 year old video by TED

[princekhunt]

One of the good tedx speaker that I have seen in my life. Good to listen but hard to decode this things and ideas.

[bigpro]

This lady is just cementing in my mind that we are probably living in a simulation.

[shyamkumar-sbim]

I have a doubt, though we can store all data in DNA we need a device to synthesis all data in world to DNA which should have a huge storage right as it is one time process ?

[tastyfrzz]

Sounds like this will not replace hard drives. Just add a long term memory archive /backup alternative. It's denser than optical but much more difficult to read. How will all of these vials of DNA be secured? Put in haystacks?

[Baxtexx]

It's good for archiving but what about speed? Maybe we'll use raid 0 or something.

[JenniferPerkins]

How does a regular person sequence dna in order for the data to be useful? What mechanics are involved?

[skwiggsskytower]

"that growth isn't cancer.. i'm backing up the shared drive"

[qaseemkhan]

i have a question which device is used to communicate with DNA i mean how they read DNA and write in it

[lp]

This technology is amazing for creating incremental periodic backups! Today, tapes are used but we could also just produce one long dna string of information, clone it in little bacterias living in tiny containers and to read it, just open one container and take a bacteria out...

[bryanchannell]

I love the potential of data and gpu, and cpus using dna vs binsry code

[besunshineforsomeone]

no matter what happens, i feel data is gonna increase day by day and it is indeed a great discovery !

[gabrieleboari]

I was talking about that this morning lol