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Revision as of 20:03, 13 October 2016

The University of Edinburgh Undergraduate iGEM team 2016 presents:

The Next Generation of Information Storage

By 2040, we will run out of the materials needed to store digital data.

If this happens, there will be no capacity for Twitter, Facebook or iGEM to function online. Last year, data centres worldwide used more electricity than the entire United Kingdom. By 2020, it will cost more than $13.7 billion to power data centres per year.



We have a solution: DNA Text Encoding



Density

DNA has 1000 times

greater storage density

than flash memory

Affordability

All our encoding programmes

are open source and initial

synthesis of the lexicon is done

for you providing significant

cost reductions on existing

methods

Longevity

DNA can last for

thousands of years

without consuming

resources; modern

hard drives can only

last 50

Modularity

Assembly of our BabbleBricks

is unrestricted and completely

customisable

Density

DNA has 1000 times

greater storage density

than flash memory

Affordability

All our encoding programmes

are open source and initial

synthesis of the lexicon is done

for you providing significant

cost reductions on existing

methods

Longevity

DNA can last for

thousands of years

without consuming

resources; modern

hard drives can only

last 50

Modularity

Assembly of our BabbleBricks

is unrestricted and completely

customisable

Abstract

In 2014, over 10 sextillion bits of data were digitally stored worldwide. To put this in context, there are only 1 sextillion grains of sand on this entire Earth. According to IBM, we generate over 2.5 billion gigabytes daily through tweets, emails and Facebook posts! The University of Edinburgh’s undergraduate team has designed a DNA storage system that is a sustainable, dense and long-lasting alternative to magnetic tape data storage. The storage system relies on modular DNA fragments that can flexibly and cost effectively store any type of data. Modularity makes BabblED the cheapest and most accessible DNA storage system available. The system is also boasts new and novel techniques to incorporate error-correcting and encryption in DNA storage. In fact, this ‘DNA Typewriter’ has already been implemented by the National Library of Scotland to archive one of their most precious manuscripts: the last letter of Mary Queen of Scots.

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