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After an exciting year with progress on multiple fronts in DNA Data Storage, we expect 2024 to be a productive year for DNA Data Storage.
Press Release: DNA Data Storage Alliance Releases Its First Specifications for Storage of Digital Data in DNA
The specifications define a recommended method for storing basic vendor and CODEC information within a DNA data archive. The CODEC provides the required conversion from digital information to DNA and DNA to digital information. The publication of the Alliance’s first specifications is an important step in our goal to set and publish specifications and standards that allow an interoperable DNA data storage ecosystem to grow. The Sector Zero and Sector One specifications are now publicly available, allowing companies working in the space to adopt and implement them.
Award: DNA Data Storage Alliance Wins SNIA Member Recognition Award
The DNA Data Storage Alliance was recently honored with a 2023 SNIA Member Recognition Award. The award recognizes the significant impact of a SNIA Technical Work Group (TWG) or Task Force, which, above all others, had members and efforts that consistently stepped up and helped SNIA achieve something new and groundbreaking or that significantly advanced an existing program.
Podcast: DNA's Potential to Store the World's Data
As the cost of DNA sequencing (reading) and synthesis (writing) comes down, scientists are looking to our very own biology for applications reaching as far as data storage. Learn more about this fascinating world in this a16z podcast, where General Partner Vijay Pande explains why this next wave of biological computing will “be the mother of many new exponentials to come.”
Article: Milestone Moon Lander Mission Targets an Otherworldly Frontier for DNA Data Storage
While this particular payload won’t make it to the moon, this fantastic article by Alan Boyle in Geekwire covers some of the latest cutting-edge research in DNA Data Storage from members of the DNA Data Storage Alliance. Geekwire covers everything from successfully testing techniques to search through a DNA database and automate the process of encoding and decoding data, to saving images in DNA such as a mosaic-style portrait of pioneering geneticist Rosalind Franklin.
Article: The Quest for a DNA Data Drive
The world is literally running out of data storage. DNA exceeds many times the storage density of magnetic tape or solid-state media, and is a solution to the anticipated shortfall in enterprise storage capacity by 2030. This IEEE Spectrum article examines how DNA data storage technology is advancing, R&D challenges, and the potential DNA data drives have to efficiently transform data storage.
White Paper: Towards More Precise and Reliable Estimations of the Capacity of DNA Storage Channels
DNA-based data storage has emerged as a new competitive technique for long-term storage, and modeling it properly to study its capacity is a challenging problem for information theory. This paper by member DNAalgo and the University of Trento, Italy, investigates the capacity of a DNA-storage channel for general models. In the first part, a capacity upper bound is obtained for noise model insertions, deletions, and substitutions (IDS). The bound is found via reducing the problem to a known instance, even if with convoluted conditions on the channel parameters. In the second part, they define a new adaptable channel model to generalize DNA-storage channel peculiarities. Then it is briefly shown how known capacity bounding techniques can be leveraged for this new model.
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