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 Information Storage
Density
DNA has 1000 times the
density of flash storage
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
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