This was made possible thanks to the collaboration with the Boston company Catalog. The catalog used a technique called combinatorial assembly, rather than traditional binary code, to encode the book’s 240 pages in DNA. The process created more than 500,000 unique DNA molecules to store 481,280 bytes of data, a small fraction of the book’s contents.
Storing data in DNA is an interesting concept because DNA is very compact and durable. The DNA molecules in this project can last for thousands of years.
Last year, the price of a similar product was $1,000.
Source: Ferra
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