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Engineered proteins store digital files with 30 times density at one-tenth cost (phys.org)
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Massive volumes of digital data are generated every day from AI training, big data analytics and smart devices. As conventional hard drives and cloud storage are increasingly constrained by high costs, limited capacity, high power consumption and short lifespans, molecular data storage has emerged as a breakthrough storage alternative.

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[-] Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org 32 points 4 days ago

emerged as a breakthrough storage alternative.

Breakthrough alternative my ass. This is basic research.

For example the writing speed into this "storage", it is still as slow as a little child's handwriting.

[-] snoons@lemmy.ca 18 points 4 days ago

I'm just imagining someone waiting ~36 hours for their e.coli culture to grow enough to produce a signal... and finally download their MLP fanfic.

[-] fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 days ago

All I want is to have a future advanced archeology mission discovery my MLP fanfics

[-] snoons@lemmy.ca 2 points 9 hours ago

I'm imagining a whole religion being created centred around my little pony because the fanfics that were dug up were completely misinterpreted.

[-] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 3 points 3 days ago

Me too!

[-] fullsquare@awful.systems 8 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

thunderous speed in the range of minutes per residue (not every aminoacid can be used and what they're printing is dna, not proteins so multiply it 3x. they're encoding 3 bits per aminoacid, but there's overhead, error correction and structural requirements that make data density lower than 1 bit per nucleobase)

[-] red_bull_of_juarez@lemmy.dbzer0.com 24 points 4 days ago

Honey, I ate the family photos to bulk up.

[-] ranzispa@mander.xyz 15 points 3 days ago

We had a 2 hours blackout and the -80 freezer got warm.

I hope you got some backups of your backup.

[-] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 17 points 3 days ago

And minutes of data integrity, right?

[-] A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip 21 points 4 days ago

Mmmm, edible USB sticks 🤤

[-] db2@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago

A wild particle appears! It's super effective!

[-] k0e3@lemmy.ca 5 points 3 days ago

MY NFT IS ON DNA

[-] snoons@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 days ago

YOUR NFT IS ON SILICON

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