Today, information is being digitized on a massive scale, by servers in datacenters, by mobile devices, and by networks of sensors everywhere around us. Artificial intelligence techniques and ubiquitous processing power are making it possible to mine this massive ocean of data; however, integral to harnessing this data as knowledge is the ability to store it for long periods of time.

The industry needs a new storage medium that is more dense, durable, sustainable, and cost effective to cope with the expected future growth of archival data. DNA, nature’s data storage medium, enters this picture at a time when synthesis and sequencing technologies for advanced medical and scientific applications are enabling the manipulation of synthetic DNA in ways previously unimagined. This session will provide and overview of why DNA data storage is compelling and what the DNA Data Storage Alliance is doing to help build an interoperable DNA Data Storage ecosystem.

To wrap up the DNA Data Storage track, Dave Landsman, along with session presenters and others from the DNA Data Storage Alliance, will host an open and informal Q&A. The notion of DNA data storage is still very new to those not having been in the emerging field over the last decade, and we will answer all your questions to help make it more real.

Users of DNA as a digital data storage medium must have confidence that they can reliably recover their stored data, and to understand the competing capabilities and claims of codecs, readers, writers, and container systems as a multi-vendor DNA data storage ecosystem emerges.