November 2025 Edition

News & Announcements

Welcome to the DNA Data Storage Alliance 2025 Fall newsletter! DNA Data Storage continues to make progress on multiple fronts. Here’s what’s happening within the Alliance and in the industry right now.

New White Paper: Position on Biosecurity Regulation for DNA Data Storage Version 1.0
Our latest white paper provides background on current DNA biosecurity regulatory policy, explains the differences between biosecurity needs for DNA data storage vs. health and life sciences applications, plus offers guiding principles and a proposed framework for approaching regulatory policy for DNA data storage.

Videos On-Demand: All Sessions from Storage & Computing with DNA Conference 2025 On-Demand
Available now: free access to the conference videos from the 2025 Storage and Computing with DNA Conference which was held in Paris, France, June 19-21.
 
Presentation Video:  Protecting DNA Data Storage Biosecurity for an Abiological application
Biosecurity meets DNA data storage in this talk by James Diggans, head of biosecurity at Twist Bioscience.
 
★ News From Our Members: 

• Watch: What if DNA replaced our data centers? A short video from alliance member Biomemory. 
• Read: Wooly Mammoth DNA Can Last 1.2 M Years. Can our Data? Blog from Atlas Data Storage. 

★ Headlines from the DNA Data Storage Industry: 

• 36 Petabytes of DNA Data Storage Loaded Onto Cassette Tape
• Algorithms for coding and decoding images and video data in DNA plasmid in Escherichia coli
• R&D: Five Articles on DNA Data Storage
• NASA: Crew Studies Space Orientation, DNA Data Storage as Dragon Reboosts Station
• Communicating with the Future