Report on Data Archiving in DNA on Swiss Television
Our work on the archiving of data on DNA has received a wide media attention and has been reported on the main news on Swiss television (SRF1 Tagesschau).
Genetic information embedded in our bones may endure for thousands of years, while data written on hard drives will barely survive 50 years. In their Communication R. N. Grass and co-workers show how artificially fossilized DNA (DNA encapsulated in silica) and modern data encoding techniques can be utilized to safely store, for example, the text of the Archimedes Palimpsest for future millennia. The error-correcting codes correct storage-related errors and allow for perfect recovery of the information.
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Robert N. Grass, Reinhard Heckel, Michela Puddu, Daniela Paunescu, Wendelin J. Stark, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2015, DOI: external page10.1002/anie.201411378